TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

Tokio Marine , a Tokyo-headquartered insurance corporation, said Tuesday it has launched its $42 million corporate venture capital (CVC) fund, dubbed Tokio Marine Future Fund, to invest in early-stage startups around the world. . Corporate venture capital follows the same trend as other VC markets: Up.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2023

As VC activity slowed down globally last year, Kenya defied odds to record the strongest growth in funding raised in Africa. Why Africa had no unicorns last year despite record fundraising haul Partech placed Kenya fourth in the list of the top VC destinations after Nigeria, South Africa and Egypt, respectively.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Shared transportation in Nigeria, Africa’s largest country by population, is a thriving business, at least when done the conventional way: offline. CEO Damilola Olokesusi founded Shuttlers in 2016 to address the issue of inefficient transportation costs in Nigeria’s most renowned urban city, Lagos.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

The company, which uses a combination of computer vision and machine learning to create a system that can quickly and accurately inspect vehicles, has raised $100 million in a Series D funding round led by Hanaco VC, a venture capital firm based in New York and Tel Aviv. Existing investors GM Ventures, CarMax, W.R.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

All Raise hires new CEO : A nonprofit focused on “increasing diversity within venture capital deals and decision-makers” per our reporting, All Raise now has a new boss. The venture result : The tough market is starting to show up in venture capital results, early data indicates. Startups and VC.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

To interconnect these computers we needed IP-based telecommunications equipment build by the likes of Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. Changes in the Software World & in Venture Capital. Venture Capital. Not all of these products & companies came from Silicon Valley but the overwhelming majority did.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Aclima , a decade-old startup founded by Davida Herzl, is looking to solve that problem and has raised $40 million in new funding from strategic and institutional venture capital investors to accelerate its growth. We deploy sensor networks that combine mobile sensing where we use fleets of vehicles as a roving network.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

A founding partner at AIX Ventures, a VC firm focused on AI startups, Abbeel also hosts The Robot Brains podcast, which explores what AI and robotics can do today and where they are headed. Milo Werner is a general partner at The Engine, a VC firm that helps deep tech companies bridge the gap between discovery and commercialization.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

TC Sessions: Mobility is back, and this year we are bringing together the best and brightest founders, investors, engineers and experts on the future of transportation for a two-day, in-person event May 18 and May 19 in San Mateo, California. How to Land Early-Stage Funding. Spoiler alert: Uber for X is no longer a differentiator.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Startups/VC. It’s well-known by now that the continent is seeing rising venture capital totals. Transit security is big business : Flush with a $50 million Series B, Shift5 is working to build transportation security. Today Alchemy raised a huge grip of cash at a massive valuation – but it’s hardly alone in doing so.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

TC Sessions: Mobility is back, and this year we are bringing together the best and brightest founders, investors, engineers and experts on the future of transportation for a two-day, in-person event May 18 and May 19 in San Mateo, California. How to Land Early-Stage Funding. Spoiler alert: Uber for X is no longer a differentiator.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

Get ready for two days of programming dedicated to taking a deeper dive into the future of transportation and to meet the people who are shaping it. Visit the TC Sessions: Mobility agenda , plan your day and don’t forget about the world-class networking — we built time for it into the schedule.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2022

TC Sessions: Mobility is back, and this year we are bringing together the best and brightest founders, investors, engineers and experts on the future of transportation for a two-day, in-person event May 18 and May 19 in San Mateo, California. How to Land Early-Stage Funding. Spoiler alert: Uber for X is no longer a differentiator.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Afterpay brings global revenues, global users and a more diverse merchant network to Square,” Alex notes. “It Developers may delight in solving complex technical problems, but the problem of a career path is one many don’t think much about, Juniper Networks CTO Raj Yavatkar writes in a guest column. That seems like a lot.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 18, 2021

Evette Ellis and Ben Schippers took to the main stage at TC Sessions: Mobility 2021 to share how their companies capitalized on the new opportunities presented by the electric transportation revolution. Investors Clara Brenner, Quin Garcia and Rachel Holt on SPACs, micromobility and how COVID-19 shaped VC. EDT/noon PDT.

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

The European VC market is so hot it may skip its summer holiday. Alex Wilhelm and Anna Heim continued their exploration of the scorching global VC market, this time taking a look at Europe. ” The European VC market is so hot it may skip its summer holiday. Canada’s startup market booms alongside hot global VC investment.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

The founders also took in grant money from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research fund during an earlier R&D phase developing the network tech. Suddenly network level adversaries were front page news. And the team behind Nym thinks conditions look ripe for general purpose privacy-focused networking tech to take off too.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

They include Jim Breyer of Breyer Capital and Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, who said last year he was moving his venture capital firm , 8VC, from Silicon Valley to the city, and Geoff Lewis , founder and managing partner of Bedrock Capital. Austin wasn’t an overnight success.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2022

TC battles stalkerware : Back in February , TechCrunch’s Zack Whittaker pulled back the curtain on a network of “stalkerware” apps that were meant to quietly gobble up a victim’s private text messages, photos, browsing history, etc. Here’s a taste: How does venture capital work? : Not at all.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Other deals that got our attention this week … American Axle & Manufacturing said it will invest $15 million in early-stage Silicon Valley venture capital firm Autotech Ventures. The DOE also promised $3 billion in funding to support U.S.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Each of them has cracked the code that grants access to capital and influential social networks, but I also wanted to learn about how they approached leadership and management, hear some of their strategies for building confidence and find out whether generic best practices for startup success applied to their lived experiences.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

social networking services. “ Startups/VC. We have three sections of startup news today, starting with mobility, continuing with venture fund news, and closing with a neat startup round. It was destined to be a weird MWC by any measure ,” writes our own Brian Heater, diving into the state of the smartphone industry.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

AtoB thinks it has the solution and its co-founder says the company is essentially Stripe for transportation. Startups and VC Banking stocks are whipsawing this morning in the wake of the UBS–Credit Suisse deal and First Republic’s continued woes — and much more, on this morning’s utterly excellent episode of our Equity podcast.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

The country is quickly catching up to China on the tech investment front, with VC investments reaching a record of $15 billion in 2020, according to TechNation. Other startup support players include the new Science Creates VC fund , set up by entrepreneur Harry Destecroix, and TechSPARK Engine Shed. What’s their focus?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

The Yozma Programme (Hebrew for “initiative”) from the government, in 1993, was seminal: It offered attractive tax incentives to foreign VCs in Israel and promised to double any investment with funds from the government. As in other countries in “COVID 2020”, VC tended to focus on existing portfolio companies.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

Startups/VC. Commercial EVs for the Indian market : Amazon is working with a number of companies on EVs for its global delivery network, one of which is EVage. The fact that Kirsten Korosec, our enterprising transportation editor, got to test one is jealousy-inspiring. social networking giant some $3.1 TechCrunch Experts.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

Amazon launched AWS Private 5G so companies can build their own 4G networks…for now, Paul writes. This is something that has been in the works since late 2021 , and the company said eventually there will be capabilities for 5G networks. Startups and VC. 5G begets 4G : Yeah, you read that right.

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OurCrowd

OCTOBER 10, 2021

OurCrowd portfolio company IntellAct offers a glimmer of hope to help the hard-pressed transportation industry cut costs as it grapples with financial challenges exacerbated by the pandemic. The Israeli ecosystem is in hypergrowth, and OurCrowd is proud to be leading it as Israel’s most active VC investor. Learn More. . Read More. .

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Despite the post-pandemic restart, our interconnected, digital-driven, global e-commerce network and the sophisticated supply chain that supports it is buckling. Life lessons from a venture visionary. Klik’s technology helps event leaders elevate and measure attendee engagement, participation, and networking.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 9, 2020

OurCrowd is maintaining close contact with our portfolio and network to provide guidance in navigating this crisis. “From healthcare to transportation; artificial intelligence to agriculture and food and fighting fires in Australia to protection from missiles, OurCrowd is saving and improving lives.” Click here.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Our firm has had the good fortune to invest in many two-sided networks that used information aggregation, supplier aggregation, and user generated content to attract and inform consumers and resultantly disrupt and change different industries. Ezra Klein : Hello and welcome to the Ezra Klein Show, a podcast on Vox Media Podcast Network.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Allow untrusted network participants to trade If you started a business 200 years ago you could mostly only trade in your local economy and you relied about “traders” who could transport your products great distances to those who might like to buy them in foreign lands. That would be like Turkey’s voting to have Thanksgiving dinner.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2022

For decades, there were several blocks where angels and VC partners camped out at café tables, taking pitches between lattes. To cut through the noise, he recommends that founders create a “teaser trailer” to share with their network before they begin approaching angels and VCs. DeWitt, who became a VC after selling Drop, Inc.

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OurCrowd

MAY 20, 2022

Animal agriculture emits more greenhouse gases than the entire transportation sector. OurCrowd, Regal Four (a Beren family venture entity), F2 Venture Capital, NGN Partners and Future Energy Ventures participated in this new round. Your portfolio gets stronger when the OurCrowd network gets involved.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 4, 2021

It seemed unrealistic—not that all startups aren’t in some way realistic—but VCs generally communicate communication style with competency. What’s the likelihood that some random guy who doesn’t even think to create a standard VC deck could know enough about aviation to build whatever this thing was he was trying to build?

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