TechCrunch
MARCH 29, 2022
Y Combinator’s latest batch — W22 — features 414 startups from 42 countries, representing more than 80 sectors. Just like last year’s batches, about half of the companies in the W22 batch (where YC’s Standard Deal comes to full effect for the first time) are based outside of the United States. As usual, the U.S. has the most representation.
AsiaTechDaily
MARCH 29, 2022
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Bangladeshi edtech startup Shikho , a company dedicated to making high-quality education accessible and affordable, today announced it has raised $4 million in new seed funding. This is in addition to the $1.3 million it raised in August 2021, bringing its total round to $5.3 million, the largest seed funding a Bangladeshi startup has raised to date.
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TechCrunch
MARCH 29, 2022
Michael Redd. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Michael Redd spent 12 seasons playing in the NBA and on the U.S. Olympic team. He is now co-founder and chairman of 22 Ventures. More posts by this contributor. 3 warning signs that your investor will leave you on the sidelines. Startup accelerators are increasingly putting the brakes on demo days. The often flashy events reserved for founders to connect with investors have long been part of the likes of Y Combinator’s program, seen as the ̶
AsiaTechDaily
MARCH 29, 2022
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Oxyzo Financial Solutions Pvt Ltd, OfBusiness’ finance arm, has become a unicorn after receiving $200 million in a Series A funding round. The financing round was led by Alpha Wave with Tiger Global Management , Norwest Venture Partners , Matrix Partners , and Creation Investments joining as co-investors.
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TechCrunch
MARCH 29, 2022
The exclusive club of family offices just got one comma shorter. For the paltry sum of $350,000, or just over five times the median U.S. household income , individuals can invest with Equi in complex strategies focused on alternative assets, which the company says is commonplace amongst billionaires seeking to grow their wealth. These billionaires and ultra-high net worth individuals often work with family offices that manage their investments.
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TechCrunch
MARCH 29, 2022
The job market for coders remains very tight on both sides of the table: There remains a major skills and talent shortage when it comes to finding people for specialized, technical jobs; but on the other side, developers still have to jump through many hoops in hopes of connecting with the most selective jobs (and even then there is no guarantee of success).
Y Combinator
MARCH 29, 2022
For the Winter 2022 batch, we received 17,000 applications from founders around the world and funded 414. Even more significant than the number of applications is the caliber of teams that applied. Today, these founders will present their companies to an invite-only audience of investors at Y Combinator’s 34th Demo Day. When funding, we consider startups at any stage and in any field.
TechCrunch
MARCH 29, 2022
Wherever we are in the journey of navigating a pandemic, remote work is still hot. Electric , one of the many companies making it easier for organizations to work remotely, has capitalized on this trend so much in the past couple years that it’s now a unicorn. Founder and CEO Ryan Denehy told TechCrunch that the startup has raised $20 million in what it’s calling a Series D-1 from Harmonic Growth Partners, Vintage Investment Partners, Greenspring and Slack Fund.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
MARCH 29, 2022
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TechCrunch
MARCH 29, 2022
Andrew Gershfeld. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Andrew Gershfeld is a partner at Boston-based Flint Capital , an investment company supporting entrepreneurs from Israel, Europe and the U.S. at an early stage of their business. Around May 2020, nearly everything moved online, and investment pitches were among the first to do so. The entire milieu around startup funding shifted overnight.
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MARCH 29, 2022
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TechCrunch
MARCH 29, 2022
Furniture is one of the largest waste categories in the U.S., generating more than 12 million tons of waste in landfills every year, according to 2018 data by the Environmental Protection Agency. Kaiyo , an online marketplace for secondhand furniture, says it has helped the impact by keeping nearly three million pounds out of landfills since its launch in 2015. .
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MARCH 29, 2022
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TechCrunch
MARCH 29, 2022
The adoption of decentralized autonomous organizations, or DAOs, has skyrocketed in the past year, and participants believe this is just the beginning, claiming more use cases will form in the subsector. DAOs are community-led groups that, in theory, allow participants to make operational decisions without centralized leadership. The groups are self-governing, typically raising capital through a token linked to the DAO.
OurCrowd
MARCH 29, 2022
Babson Diagnostics is expanding its management team as it develops and prepares to commercialize its blood-testing system that leverages innovations in collection, sample handling, and analysis. Read more here. The post [Babson Diagnostics in Medical Product Outsourcing] Babson Diagnostics expands executive management team appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
TechCrunch
MARCH 29, 2022
Since inception, Y Combinator has invested in thousands of startups, and more recently, even hundreds within a single batch. Given the accelerator’s growth, competitive tensions feel nearly inevitable. Still, one has to wonder if there is a fundamental shift afoot. Whereas YC always backed companies that might at some point overlap, the outfit appeared to casting its net far and wide, bringing in different startups at different stages from different geographies — companies that used each other’s
OurCrowd
MARCH 29, 2022
WOLLERAU, Switzerland, March 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Proman, an integrated energy company and one of the world’s top ten nitrogen fertilizer producers, today announced a new strategic partnership with CropX, a global pioneer in digital farm management systems. Read more here. The post [CropX in PR Newswire] Proman partners with CropX to invest in cutting-edge technology to make farming more sustainable appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
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TechCrunch
MARCH 29, 2022
Churpy , a fintech startup based in Kenya, is looking to expand across Africa by setting up hubs in Egypt, Nigeria and South Africa for a planned continent-wide growth, driven by the $1 million in seed funding it has just raised. The account receivables automation startup is out to change how businesses manage the debt owed to them by their customers through its SaaS product, which automates the processes of reconciling incoming payments and invoices, a labor-intensive process that is still pred
Feedough
MARCH 29, 2022
Regulatory requirements are a big part of any business’s life. Read more. The post What Is Regtech? – Use Cases, Challenges, & Future appeared first on Feedough.
TechCrunch
MARCH 29, 2022
Singapore-headquartered esports startup Ampverse has raised $12 million in Series A funding led by Falcon Capital. The company says this is the largest Series A raised by an esports organization in Southeast Asia, based on data from PitchBook and other third-party platforms. The round will be used to expand in Indonesia and the Philippines, acquire more esports teams and scale Ampverse’s play-to-earn unit. .
Hunter Walk
MARCH 29, 2022
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TechCrunch
MARCH 29, 2022
The adoption of buy now, pay later (BNPL) in Nigeria as a payment option both online and at the point of sale is expected to record a CAGR of 20% from 2021 to 2028, per this report. BNPL’s growth is further highlighted as GMV is predicted to increase from $204 million to over $1 billion by 2028. Key to this growth is the activities of providers whose platforms encourage consumers to make instantaneous purchases and pay over time. .
AsiaTechDaily
MARCH 29, 2022
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Amagi, a Bengaluru-based SaaS platform that allows TV networks and content owners to distribute and monetize content across multiple platforms, became a unicorn in March 2022 after raising $95 million funding. Srividhya Srinivasan, Baskar Subramanian, and Srinivasan KA set out in 2008 to revolutionize global content distribution and monetize the media sector.
TechCrunch
MARCH 29, 2022
Day one of Y Combinator’s Demo Day confab for the Winter 2022 batch is over. We shook up our coverage this year, divvying things up by sector and geography. Our goal was to avoid a huge list, the sort that we compiled in years past. TechCrunch has notes on the ever-growing contingent of companies from Africa , Indian startups , international fintech and even a discussion on intra-startup competition at the accelerator.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
MARCH 29, 2022
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