TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

SoftBank Group Corp. is doubling down on its commitment to Latin America. Today, the Japanese investment conglomerate is announcing the launch of the SoftBank Latin America Fund II, its second dedicated private investment fund focused on tech companies located in LatAm. SoftBank is launching the new fund with an initial $3 billion commitment. “Fund II will explore options to raise additional capital,” SoftBank said in a statement.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Over the course of the summer, hundreds of people located in Ben Franklin’s 32-county footprint in Pennsylvania, visited BIGIDEA.BenFranklin.org to check out the rules and the easy application process for our $50,000 innovation contest. Recently, our team had the difficult job of choosing finalists from all the applications received from the region’s emerging tech-entrepreneurs and small manufacturers.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Immi is putting a healthy spin on instant ramen by going plant-based and offering more bold tastes. The company announced Tuesday that it raised $3.8 million in seed funding. Co-founders Kevin Lee and Kevin Chanthasiriphan both grew up in food families from Taiwan and Thailand, respectively, and met a decade ago while working at the same tech company.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Casey Saran. Contributor. Share on Twitter. An ad tech veteran who has logged time at Google and The Rubicon Project (now Magnite), Casey Saran is co-founder and CEO of Spaceback. 2021 has been a good year to be an adtech investor. Valuations are surging , Wall Street is happy and exits are frequent and satisfying. It’s the perfect time to double down and invest in an area that has been largely ignored but is poised for major upside in the next few years: Digital creative ad technology.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Mailchimp is selling itself to Intuit in a transaction valued at $12 billion. The deal is a coup not only for companies that eschew venture capital backing — Mailchimp is famous for its bootstrapping history — but also for the city of its founding, Atlanta. Mailchimp’s mega-exit comes in the same year that fellow Atlanta-based startup Calendly raised a massive $350 million round that valued the technology company north of $3 billion, per Crunchbase data.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Whatever you do, don’t quit your 9-5 job. Here’s how I did it. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

There’s a new entrant in Southeast Asia’s growing list of unicorns. Jakarta-based Xendit , best known for its digital payment infrastructure but also focused on other financial products, announced today it has raised $150 million in Series C funding, bumping its valuation to $1 billion. The round was led by Tiger Global Management, with participation from returning investors Accel, Amasia and Goat Capital, the venture firm co-founded by former Y Combinator partner Justin Kan (in 2015, Xendit bec

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Intuit will pay cash and stock to scoop up the email marketing behemoth. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

AgBiome , developing products from microbial communities, brought in a $116 million Series D round as the company prepares to pad its pipeline with new products. The company, based in Research Triangle Park, N.C., was co-founded in 2012 by a group including co-CEOs Scott Uknes and Eric Ward, who have known each other for over 30 years. They created the Genesis discovery platform to capture diverse microbes for agricultural applications, like crop protection, and screen the strains for the best a

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OurCrowd

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The post Surgical Theater helps separate conjoined twins appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Corporate gift services have come into their own during the COVID-19 pandemic by standing in as a proxy for other kinds of relationship-building activities — office meetings, lunches and hosting at events — that have traditionally been part and parcel of how people do business, but were no longer feasible during lockdowns, social distancing and offices closing their doors.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

One of the most common questions entrepreneurs ask as they start their business is what comes next. You have a great idea and draft a business plan that establishes a timeline of goals you plan to reach. The next step is to start working to reach these goals and milestones. As your business begins to grow, remember to protect it. These legal assets will ensure its protection before the startup fully opens its doors for business. 1.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Seems Locus Robotics is striking while the iron is hot. Seven months after raising a sizable $150 million Series E , Tiger Global is investing another $50 million in the Massachusetts firm. The last round made Locus a unicorn, and this one brings the company’s total funding to around $300 million. Locus specializes in warehouse and fulfillment robotics, making a more modular solution that doesn’t require the sort of “ground-up build” of a Berkshire Grey.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Developer relations tops the list of priorities for many infrastructure companies. After all developer interest is a key step in the go-to-market motion. Many products enter an organization bottoms-up, and months or years later, become so important to the company, they buy a contract. How does a team scale and measure a devrel team? To answer that question, Redpoint Office Hours welcomes Shawn Wang , on Wednesday, September 22nd at 9:00 AM PT.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

When Kleiner Perkins led Stord’s $12.4 million Series A in 2019, its founders were in their early 20s and so passionate about their startup that they each dropped out of their respective schools to focus on growing the business. Fast-forward two years and Stord — an Atlanta-based company that has developed a cloud supply chain — is raising more capital in a round again led by Kleiner Perkins.

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Feedough

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Founded in 2013, Bangladesh’s Chaldal was one of the first grocery delivery startups in the world to use the “dark” store model, picking up orders from its own warehouses instead of retail stores. Now the company says it is the country’s second-largest grocery player and the largest grocery e-commerce platform, with 27 warehouses located in four cities.

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OurCrowd

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Plenty BB #:356949, the flavor-first vertical farming company with a mission to improve the lives of people, plants, and the planet, today announced the appointment of Gerardo Navarro Spamer to Grow Director. Read more here. The post [Plenty in Blue Book Services] Plenty hires grow director to oversee crop nutrition and protection appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

When you’re hot, you’re hot. And 1047 Games is making the most of the heat generated by Splitgate , its first game and a now a breakout success. After working on a shoestring for years, the team has since May raised three rounds, the latest for a massive $100M. Co-founder and CEO Ian Proulx credited a dedicated community and, as he described it, “taking a Silicon Valley approach to running a game business.” At the time 1047 Games was founded, about 5 years ago, free to pl

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OurCrowd

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Daikin Applied today introduced the upgraded Rebel Applied™ with enVerid Sorbent Ventilation Technology™ (SVT), the industry’s first packaged total-air-quality system that combines the benefits of sorbent media with a class-leading, configurable rooftop unit. Read more here. The post [enVerid in Yahoo Finance] Daikin Applied Boosts IAQ with Upgraded Rebel Applied Rooftop Heating and Cooling System appeared first on OurCrowd Blo

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Five months ago, Ambi Robotics emerged from stealth with a $6 million raise. Today the Bay Area-based firm is back with several times that, announcing a $26 million Series A, led by Tiger Global. The new round also features participation from existing investors, including Bow Capital, Vertex Ventures US and The House Fund. The startup first hit our radar through the involvement of UC Berkeley (and frequent TC Sessions: Robotics guest Ken Goldberg).

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OurCrowd

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

GAITHERSBURG, Md., Sept. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Edgybees, the leading visual intelligence technology company, announced today the appointment of Lieut. Gen. H. R. McMaster (US Army, ret.) as the newest member of its U.S. advisory board. McMaster joins shortly after the appointments of Brett B. Lambert and Aki Yamaura. McMaster, Lambert, and Yamaura will utilize their comprehensive backgrounds in defense, national security and intelligence, and remote sensing and geospatial data, respectiv

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

SellersFunding secured $166.5 million in a combination of Series A equity funding and a credit facility to continue developing its technology and payments platforms for e-commerce businesses. Northzone led the round and was joined by Endeavor Catalyst and Fasanara. SellersFunding CEO Ricardo Pero did not disclose the funding breakdown, but did say the company previously raised two seed rounds for a total of $40 million in equity and more than $100 million in credit facilities, including one that

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OurCrowd

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

TytoCare, an NYC-based all-in-one modular device and examination platform for AI-powered, on-demand, remote medical exams, today announced its expanded partnership with the NHS that will see the deployment of TytoCare’s telehealth solution across 14 organizations and 26 projects in Yorkshire and Humber, including Leeds Children’s Hospital, Sheffield Children’s, and nearly 70 care homes.

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