Jason Malki

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Kashyap Kompella I had the pleasure of interviewing Kashyap Kompella is the founder of Talentmapp , an AI-driven people search engine designed to facilitate purposeful, noiseless networking for professionals, startups, and venture studios. He is also launching TPH Venture Studio , a pre-seed venture fund backing AI startups.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 24, 2025

One of the ventures he worked on became one of the top 10 healthcare websites in China, eventually acquired by a public company. Ultimately Sun’s goal is to enable early and affordable GI screening and diagnosis for everyone. That’s when I realised my passion wasn’t just medicine – it was solving medical problems with technology.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 11, 2025

This round includes both new backers like Khosla Ventures, Bicycle Capital, Geodesic Capital, and Archerman Capital, alongside continued support from existing top-tier investors including Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, General Catalyst, and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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American Entrepreneurship

AUGUST 6, 2024

Identify and access management company Okta will award up to $500K as an investment to the winner of its inaugural SaaS startup competition. The company seeks the latest application innovations underway using identity, privacy, and security-enabled workflows. Okta’s platform helps startups develop identity-enabled applications.

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Revolution

APRIL 6, 2021

By Revolution Ventures Managing Partner David Golden and VP Alex Shtarkman As voracious consumers of podcasting content, we could not be more excited to announce our investment in Indianapolis-based Casted , a company reinventing the traditional digital content marketing playbook. Stay tuned! [1]

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The global financial services firm narrowed its selection down to 25 companies for its I nclusive Ventures Lab. These technology-enabled startups are in the seed to Series A funding round stage, tackling a wide range of global challenges and needing access to resources. Twelve U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2022

Lahore-based coworking space startup, Colabs , is set to roll-out a SaaS product to enable businesses meet back-office needs including company registration, talent sourcing and management, payroll processing and legal and tax compliance.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The startup has just closed a $10 million Series A to continue building out its workplace management SaaS for landlords and office managers — which offers features like resource scheduling (booking meeting rooms etc.), employee/co-working space member engagement, and financial management tools through web and mobile applications.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 28, 2023

Sharon Lou, venture partner at Indelible Ventures , considers this as one of the top mistakes that founders commit when raising funds. Indelible Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in B2B SaaS startups that can scale internationally. I have got to say B2B SAAS just because we are focused on that!

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The Moderne Ventures team of founder Constance Freedman and partner Liza Benson built a track record of top-tier returns with its novel approach to venture investing. Founder and Managing Partner Constance Freedman and Partner, Liza Benson , oversee the generalist venture capital and growth equity firm.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Via TechCrunch by Arman Tabatabai: Venture capital has been flooding the various subverticals under the robotics umbrella in recent years, and the construction space is one of the largest beneficiaries. Matt Murphy and Grace Ge, Menlo Ventures Which trends are you most excited about in construction robotics from an investing perspective?

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

But progress is being made as seen in the rising number of women-led venture funds that focus on funding women entrepreneurs. In addition, Crunchbase reports that w omen-founded venture firms in the U.S. venture firms allocated only 22% of their deals to female-founded startups. billion of total venture capital.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Amitruck , a Kenyan tech-enabled logistics platform, is one such provider of solutions that streamline the shipping market. However, over the last one decade, tech solutions are emerging to bring efficiency into the sector and make shipping cheaper, while increasing the availability of options for shippers. Image Credits: Amitruck.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

After a decade-long bull run, many venture capital funds have found themselves holding overvalued shares of companies whose IPO prospects have been either eliminated or significantly delayed. Greater geopolitical tensions around Taiwan The case for US venture capital outperformance by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 14, 2024

Investment Accelerates the Development of SaaS Solutions Suite Featuring API-based Pharmacy and Telehealth Products SAN FRANCISCO, CA – March 11, 2024 – Foundation Health, a pioneering healthcare technology company, today announced the closure of a $6 million seed funding round.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

As DevOps SaaS platform Esper continues to build out the category and the number of connected devices grows, the company took on another round of funding to stay ahead of demand. Existing investors, including the Series B lead Scale Venture Partners, Madrona Ventures and Root Ventures, also participated.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

This is a Series C and it’s being led by Balderton Capital out of London, with participation from Jerusalem Venture Partners, a previous backer. It’s raised around $103 million to date with other investors including Sound Ventures, Cisco and MizMaa.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

Early-stage venture capital fund Newtopia VC launched Monday with $50 million to invest in tech startups based in Latin America. There are home-grown venture capital firms doing well, too, citing Kazek’s $1 billion funds. Why Latin American venture capital is breaking records this year.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 12, 2023

“We created an educational SaaS that enabled real-time two-way communication between teachers and students through IT. This transition marked the beginning of EVENTUS, as they ventured into automating tasks within the event operations process and accumulating valuable data. “Events play a crucial role in B2B sales.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Pipefy , a “low-code” workflow management SaaS startup, announced today that it has raised $75 million in Series C funding. In 2019, Pipefy raised $45 million from Insight Partners, Openview and Trinity Ventures. Says Alionço: “Our tool enables citizen developers. million since its 2015 inception. Insight led that round. .

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JANUARY 30, 2024

Before this program, I had the desire to pursue venture capital funding but lacked the clarity on what steps to take. The learning sessions were game changers that provided me with all the necessary details on how to approach and attract venture capitalists.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 22, 2024

million funding round led by an investment from First Trust Capital Partners with participation from FCA Venture Partners, Create Health Ventures, Impact Engine, 450 Ventures, LDH Ventures II/Launchpad Digital Health, MassMutual Ventures, Capstar Partners and Wanxiang Healthcare Investments.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

billion in follow-on funding, the venture firm said, with over 60% of companies from the first five cohorts raising their Series A and beyond. Attentive , a vertical SaaS company, is building a sales automation platform for America’s outdoor services contractors. Info Edge Ventures is a co-investor.). 8VC is a co-investor.).

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 31, 2023

The share of AI-enabled web searches approaches 50% of all consumer search as consumer behavior patterns evolve, especially on mobile. US VC investment falls from $275b in 2022 to $200b in 2023 & sustains at about $200-220b in 2024 as LP interest in venture attenuates after the euphoria in 2020 & 2021. Score : 0.5.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

This is part of a series on building your career in venture capital: Reading list for working in private equity/venture capital , including all of the major online communities, programs, and educational options for people studying VC. How to get a job in venture capital. How to find a job as a VC scout.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

The startup’s new financing round — a Series D — was led by existing investor New York-headquartered Insight Partners, with participation from existing investors Nexus Venture Partners and CRV. We are also releasing our Flow Runner tool, a no-code API composition tool to enable anyone to build API driven programs.”.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 13, 2021

BAMF Health of Grand Rapids is a precision-medicine startup that aims to create a world-class radiotracer translational platform through AI-enabled molecular imaging and theranostics. They’re a SaaS startup that has created a tool to more accurately predict and guide construction outcomes and facility planning. BAMF Health.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 28, 2021

2021 marked the second year of COVID and like other crises, the pandemic accelerated change, especially in technology pushing many technologies like SaaS, video conferencing, crypto/web3 deeper into the Perez deployment cycle. Improved infrastructure enables new applications, which attract more users. Absolutely this happened.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Murf.ai, its SaaS platform, was developed to make it easier for clients to create high-quality natural sounding voiceovers for any commercial purpose. The founders describe Murf as an “all-in-one-voice solution” that enables users to add images, videos and background music. ” 5 questions for venture capital in Q3 2022.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2022

Whether out of necessity from mass layoffs, a desire for a more flexible lifestyle, or finding the inspiration to finally pursue a passion, millions have started their own ventures. For one, the cloud makes data accessible from anywhere with an internet connection, enabling the seamless collaboration necessary in a hybrid work environment.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Revolution Ventures led the round and was joined by existing investors Madrona Venture Group, Oregon Venture Fund and Mucker Capital, as well as Wise co-founder Taavet Hinrikus. Its banking APIs enable developers to create their own digital wallets, replacing the need to integrate with legacy financial institutions.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The round was led by Altos Ventures , along with strong support from BonAngels Venture Partners, Access Ventures, Mahanusa Capital, Prodigy Investment, and Pearl Abyss Capital.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

Mambu raises $135M at a $2B+ valuation for a SaaS platform that powers banking services. The Series B round of funding is being led by Draper Esprit, with Earlybird, Gapminder Ventures, Launchub and OTB Ventures (which all participated in its Series A in December 2019 ) also participating.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Main investors include TMT Investments, TLF Ventures, Flyer One and others. Ahrefs claims to have become a $100 million company in annual revenue without venture capital. Developed a SaaS-based white-label web3 platform that opens revenue streams and strengthens community engagement. It has raised $14.7

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2023

CEO Deepak Rao also told me via email that X1 has raised $16 million in venture debt from Silicon Valley Bank, which will be used toward “growing new product lines and having cash reserve for growth in purchase volume and outstanding balances.” PayPal and Bold Commerce have teamed up in an effort “to enable brands to go headless.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

Reveal today announced that it raised $50 million in a Series A round led by Insight Partners with participation from Eight Roads, Chalfen Ventures, and Dig Ventures. But Bouchez argues that Reveal goes a step further by involving sales and marketing teams in the process for lead generation, sales enablement, and ecosystem expansion.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

We’ve seen the market evolving over the last 10 years, and what started as an idea to bring a whiteboard into a browser has enabled us to understand the kind of value we can bring to organizations of all sizes,” he added. Andrey Khusid, co-founder and CEO of Miro. Image Credits: Andrey Khusid.

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