Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

From 2003-2022 the River Valley Investors operated as a traditional angel group, investing in nearly 100 startups. For posterity, here are some of the more recent investments… 2022 Hubly Surgical Hubly Surgical has an advanced drill, complete with auto-stop and visual feedback, to make medical drilling safe across underserved settings.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

They enable governments to finance critical infrastructure, corporations to fund growth, and individuals to make life’s most important purchases. In 2013, just 8% of corporate debt was traded electronically. We’re thrilled to be investing alongside Venrock, Contrary, Neo, and Henry R. By the end of 2022, this number was 45%.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Notably, Speak is the third startup in which OpenAI, the AI lab closely aligned with Microsoft, has publicly invested through its fund — the others being Descript and Mem. Zwick came from the edtech industry — he sold his first startup, the flashcard app Flashcards+, to Chegg in 2013 after dropping out of Harvard.

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Onevest

MARCH 19, 2015

Join the rest of the nation including equity crowdfunding platforms like 1000 Angels , the private investor network that connects startups with investors, where currently only accredited investors are allowed to invest. Title II was not instituted until September 2013, a little more than a year after the SEC's deadline assigned by Congress.

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Haystack

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

We were lucky to invest not only during this time, but also doubled down in an extension. The company received investment interest for a few years, but took their time to raise the Series A. When I began investing in 2013, the Series A rounds were quite fast and furious after the seed rounds. That is not the case today.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Ugandan technology-enabled asset finance company Tugende today announced that it has closed $3.6 The investment, which, according to the company, was agreed on and structured in 2020, follows the $6.3 million raised in November 2020 and led by Toyota Tsusho investment fund Mobility 54. million in a Series A extension round.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Since launching in 2013, South African fintech Yoco has positioned itself as the go-to platform to access offline payments among merchants in the country. The company’s Series C investment is the largest of its kind in South Africa and one of the largest for any African fintech (third only to Flutterwave and Chipper Cash ).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

When DBeaver creator Serge Rider began building an open source database admin tool in 2013, he probably had no idea that 10 years later, it would boast more than 8 million users. DBeaver takes $6M seed investment to build on growing popularity by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch

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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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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 6, 2022

Register Transport Capital , a globally-recognised investment management and advisory firm focused on the maritime and aviation industries, has launched its new venture capital arm named TC Ventures. Established in 2013, Transport Capital is an investment management and financial advisory company focused on maritime and aviation.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Userpilot helps companies “achieve higher user activation, engagement, and retention rates” by enabling them to personalize in-app onboarding experiences for users. Having invested in earlier PLG success stories like Amplitude (NASDAQ: AMPL), we believe that Userpilot is ushering in the next generation of PLG tools.”.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Derek Zanutto is a general partner at CapitalG , Alphabet’s independent growth fund, where he invests in data, security and SaaS-based enterprise software. It was 2013, and I’d been camping out in Uber’s San Francisco offices for weeks. Despite our valuation concerns, we ended up making the investment.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Indeed, the California-based company, founded in 2013 by Philip Ross and Sophia Wang, is among a hot trend of companies working with fungus and other plant-based materials to make fabrics for fashion. The funding will enable the company to do this, Scullin said. Blue rack trays of MycoWorks’ fungi.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Ascend Money will use the proceeds to grow its e-wallet application – TrueMoney Wallet – and expand its digital financial services ranging from digital lending and digital investment to cross border remittances in Southeast Asia. Indonesian investment platform Ajaib gets $25 million Series A led by Horizons Venture and Alpha JWC.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The new investment will help the startup to accelerate its overseas expansion across the world with a focus on the United States, the country with the highest percentage of educators using one-to-one computing (1:1) computing. This latest round sees Vivi reach $24.3 in total capital over five years, after it raised $4.3

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

The funding comes just months after São Paulo-based Mercado Bitcoin’s Series A round (of an undisclosed amount) in January of 2021, which was co-led by G2D/GP Investments and Parallax Ventures, with participation from HS Investimentos , Gear Ventures, Évora and Genial. billion, ranking it among the top 10 unicorns in Latin America. .

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 7, 2014

Third, Kickstarter and other crowdfunding sites have enabled hardware startups to mitigate one of the biggest risks in starting out: obtaining a reliable proxy for consumer demand. Each investment is a red circle. Other segments of the market, namely Series A, B and C, have kept their typical investment size relatively constant.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The funding will enable us to invest in growth activities, increasing our market share in East Africa, with a focus on Kenya and Uganda. Partnering with Safaricom enabled us to land the Kenya Railways (operators of the national train grid) deal and validated our solution and capacity to build solutions for high value transactions.

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Revolution

APRIL 4, 2019

By Ted Leonsis, Founder and Partner, Revolution Growth I joined the Revolution team as a cofounder of the Revolution Growth fund in 2011 and our goal was, and still is, to make investments in great businesses that give customers more choice, convenience and control in their lives.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

with co-investment from OSF Ventures, Sony Innovation Fund, and Dreampact Ventures. iMCI) is a private, for profit investment and fund management company operating as a wholly owned subsidiary of i2E, Inc. iMCI) is a private, for profit investment and fund management company operating as a wholly owned subsidiary of i2E, Inc.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Founded in 2013, the Bay Area-based company provides centimeter-accurate 3D scanning services, primarily for construction sites and mining operations. Where top VCs are investing in construction robotics. Skycatch today announced a $25 million raise, led by ADB Ventures and Wavemaker.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2021

He began creating cyclone reports on his own as a consultant after Typhoon Haiyan in 2013, also known as Super Typhoon Yolanda, which killed at least 6,300 people in the Philippines. Its new investment will be used to build a scalable platform. Komunidad also enables its customers to build their own alert systems.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

We are also investing in other skilled talent like doctors and nurses, professionals that are critical in the work we do,” Rockson told TechCrunch. “??Bloom ’s development arm CDC Group, Breyer Capital and Golden Palm Investments. Other investors include Northstar, Social Capital, Novastar and TO Ventures.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 2, 2023

207 Applications Approved for over $8 Million in Tax Credits to Support Investment in 28 Companies TRENTON, N.J. million in private investment as supported in 2023 by the New Jersey Angel Investor Tax Credit Program (ATC). million in tax credits, based on a percentage of eligible investment.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 4, 2021

SentinelOne, which was founded in 2013 and has raised a total of $696.5 ” It added that it “may also use a portion of the net proceeds for the acquisition of, or investment in, technologies, solutions, or businesses that complement our business.” SentinelOne, which was founded in 2013 and has raised a total of $696.5

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

At Versatile VC, we particularly like investing in “dual-PhD” problems, at the intersection of multiple domains. Next36 focuses on supporting students and recent grads launching their startups, while Next AI supports AI-enabled ventures looking to disrupt industries. . Creator Fund is a European firm “investing in Ph.D.,

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Angel Capital Association

APRIL 30, 2023

Y Combinator, a leading incubator, invented the original (pre-money) SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity) in 2013 to provide an easy, fast and cheap way to fund the dozens of startups comprising a Y/C batch. So, are SAFEs truly dominating early-stage investing? So, what about Seed Stage, the angel’s most frequent investing stage?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

Founded in 2013, the Argentinian startup serves as a white label infrastructure software provider, with the aim of giving businesses the ability to launch financial services. Geopagos , a payments infrastructure startup based in Buenos Aires, has raised $35 million in a round led by Riverwood Capital.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

Saleor says the injection of capital will be invested in further developing Saleor‘s headless e-commerce platform, including a soon-to-launch cloud product and GraphQL API for front-end engineers.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

He said that mPharma already provides about 10,000 physician consultations to patients at the startup’s network of pharmacies, and that the new system will enable them to do it electronically too, reaching more people. mPharma also enjoys expertise backing from well experienced professions in the pharmaceutical industry.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

HoneyBook’s software enables business owners to organize their workflow, streamline their client list and manage cash flow. This time around, Tiger Global Management doubled down on its investment into the company to lead the round. The new round propels the San Francisco-based company’s valuation to $2.4 HoneyBook dashboard.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

CEO and cofounder Michael Horvath, who stepped down in 2013 before returning as head honcho six years later , said that the Fatmap acquisition is part of Strava’s “ongoing investment to provide a best-in-class digital experience” for those seeking an active lifestyle.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

Five Elms Capital and others invested in the round to give Sendlane total funding of $23 million since the company was founded in 2018. Though the company officially started three years ago, co-founder and CEO Jimmy Kim told TechCrunch he began working on the idea back in 2013 with two other co-founders.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 18, 2020

In 2013, Dr. Hagen joined with two more brilliant minds, Rita Hansen and Dr. Jeff Witwer, and together, they founded Onboard Dynamics. Since then, the angel group has worked to open doors for the startup and many individual members of the group have invested in the company. The following September in 2014 the company received a $3.6

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 7, 2023

In 2013, Ed launched Health2Sync in his home country of Taiwan. “Action is data-driven. Another significant benefit is that users can review historical data, enabling them to communicate more clearly with their doctors during follow-up visits. Users also receive real-time reminders and informative push notifications.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

The products are currently under development, however, the plan is to also lend to bigger businesses in the agri-value chain, as the company expands its reach from micro-sellers, who have been their target market since launch in 2013. Fintechs in Africa continue to overshadow all other startups in funding gained.

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