TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

Amid these turbulent times, the VC accelerator industry has emerged as a stalwart player. That said, a paradigm shift of the broader venture landscape could be on the horizon. Importantly, the traditional accelerator model has enjoyed the fruits of these potential paradigm shifts.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

“Teaming up with Bending Spoons will [accelerate] the delivery of improvements across our teams, professional, personal and free offerings.” Between 2010 and 2015, Evernote raised hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital from investors including Sequoia, Meritech Capital and Japanese media company Nikkei.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

With the latest investment, Minneapolis-based Branch has brought in a total of $58 million in equity funding since its 2015 inception. It started off with earned wage access and then began accelerating payments for workers. (an affiliate of job search site Indeed) also participated in the equity funding, among other investors.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Microtraction , an early-stage venture capital firm based in Lagos, Nigeria, saw funding nearly quadruple for its portfolio. ” Badamosi, who returned to Nigeria from the UK in 2015, worked as the general manager for Starta Africa, an online community for African tech entrepreneurs. The rest were unannounced.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2021

MAX started out in 2015 as a delivery startup using motorcycles to fulfil customer orders before venturing into ride-hailing, and later into vehicle subscription and financing services – solutions it came up with based on the data from its first services. “It Chinedu Azodoh is the startup’s other co-founder.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Here’s where MLOps is accelerating enterprise AI adoption. Accelerating AI adoption. Here’s where MLOps is accelerating enterprise AI adoption. “If your IVP is your presentation of an unbaked pepperoni pizza, your MVP is when you present a can of sauce, a package of cheese, a Slim Jim, and a pencil sketch of an oven.”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

Dan Lewis launched Convoy in 2015 into an established industry dominated by several legacy businesses. We’re thrilled to have him on TechCrunch Live this week, along with Chris Howard, founding partner at Fuel Capital, which invested in Convoy’s seed round. As you’ll hear, in 2014 and 2015, freight was ready for reinvention.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Italy’s ecosystem for tech venture capital and startups has been in development for years and has made decent strides in the last decade. Rome has more than 20 incubators/accelerators and many established VCs; because of its lower costs compared to other European cities, it’s become a major base for startups.

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Dream It

APRIL 23, 2019

That’s why in this article, you’ll get a comprehensive look at the startups using voice technology to make healthcare better, along with some of the VC’s and accelerators that are backing them. Leveraging Voice Tech to Give Elders More Independence As of July 2015, there were 47.8 Here’s a look at it:

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase. Revenue acceleration is, too. Here is the Google Doc where we tracked these.]

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Boulder is quickly becoming a startup mecca on par with Silicon Valley — largely due to the Techstars accelerator, which has cultivated the city’s startup ecosystem. Brad Feld helped co-found the venture capital firm with one goal in mind: to help entrepreneurs. “We Boulder, Colorado.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Partners Investment and Murex Partners co-led the new funding, with participation from Smilegate Investment, Quantum Ventures Korea , ABC Partners , Everrich Group, GS Group’s corporate venture capital firm GS Futures , We Ventures, Base Investment and Dunamu & Partners. AmazeVR has raised a total of $30.8

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

Founded in 2015 by Jeanny Yao and Wang, both discovered the massive problem of plastics starting with a field trip to the Vancouver South Waste Transfer Station. Novoloop claims its TPU made from post-consumer waste has a carbon footprint that is up to 46% smaller than conventional TPUs. Image Credits: Novoloop.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

In 2015, there were approximately 3.5 Pandian Gnanaprakasam and Sheausong Yang — who between them had tenures at Cisco, Aruba Networks, and AT&T Bell Labs — co-founded Ordr in 2015 to address what they call the “visibility gap” in enterprise networks. . billion internet of things (IoT) devices in use.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

As the demand for AI-powered apps grows, startups developing dedicated chips to accelerate AI workloads on-premises are reaping the benefits. A recent ZDNet piece reaffirms that the AI edge chip market is booming, fueled by “staggering” venture capital financing in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

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HPA

MARCH 24, 2021

Lee Partners (THL), with participation from Qualcomm Ventures, Volvo Group Venture Capital AB and Zebra Technologies, as well as existing investors Hyde Park Angels , August Capital, CEAS Investments, Hyde Park Venture Partners and Bain Capital Ventures, bringing total capital raised to over $200 million.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

As venture capital totals grow in Latin America , the region is about to see its leading champion go public. Per Crunchbase data , QED put capital into Nubank’s 2014 Series A, 2015 Series B, 2016 Series D and 2018 Series E, though there may be more dollars in play that we cannot see.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

According to the company, it has raised US$144 million in an oversubscribed Series C+ equity round led by Japanese venture capital fund SoftBank Vision Fund 2 along with participation from new investors Rapyd Ventures, Vietnamese tech giant VNG Corporation, Indies Capital, Asia-based global investor EDBI, Ascend Vietnam Ventures, and K3 Ventures.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 28, 2024

As I’ve said many times before, women need to be in a position to make decisions, control resources, and shape policies and perspectives, and I want to accelerate progress toward that vision,” French Gates states. I Want to Help Even the Match”, she previewed the next stage of her philanthropy, working to advance women’s power in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

JIC Venture Growth Investments led the Series E equity funding, with participation from Z Venture Capital , a venture investment arm of Z Holdings, Japan Post Capital and Salesforce Ventures. Mizuho Bank and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group also joined in its debt financing.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The event has accelerated the use of telemedicine, virtual care, and drug delivery, thus fuelling investor interest in the sector. In 2015, the three co-founders launched Kangpe, a telemedicine-focused startup in Nigeria with a “doctor in your pocket” slogan.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

Venture capital firms continue to raise new funds, at what seems like lightning speed. Over at VMG Catalyst, Brooke Kiley, founding partner, was in venture capital since graduating from Wharton, starting out at Insight Partners. Silversmith Capital Partners closed its fourth fund after two months with $1.25

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Michael Seibel was chief executive of Y Combinator’s accelerator up until 2020, when the accelerator evolved from a more traditional partnership to no longer having multiple CEOs. YC says that no one else’s role at the accelerator has changed with today’s executive shakeup.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Breyer Capital, General Catalyst, Naval Ravikant and others also put money in the round, which brings B12’s total funding to $28.1 B12 co-founder and CEO Nitesh Banta is a former investor at General Catalyst — having worked at the firm from 2010 to 2015.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

The report, which included analysis from McKinsey & Company, says its assertions are backed by an acceleration in strong market fundamentals and the impact of the pandemic. The report first highlights the growth of venture capital on the continent over the past six years; within this period, investments in African startups have grown 18x.

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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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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Thus, for Black Coffee , who backed Andela, a tech talent incubator and unicorn launched from Lagos in 2015, his win meant Africa’s tech scene could, for the first time, brag about having a homegrown Grammy Award-winning artist as an investor in its startups. Europe and globally. . What’s pulling African music artists to tech investment?

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Revolution

JUNE 15, 2023

Our partnership with CAVA began in 2015, when the Mediterranean fast-casual chain had just a dozen locations in D.C., CAVA’s founders had a vision to bring heritage, heart, health, and innovation to the fast-casual sector. Now their company is trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Maryland, and Virginia.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the company’s growth. Mental health startups are raising spirits and venture capital. The startup was founded in 2015 by Kim, who had overcome depression by getting therapy while studying in the United States. Moreover, Atommerce will increase access to the mental care ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

It requires accelerators and incubators and coworking spaces to help nurture early ideas, and it needs VC firms investing across stages. Cait Brumme, CEO at early stage tech accelerator MassChallenge says that Boston was not immuned to the vagaries of investment cycles in 2022. Greg Dracon, a partner at.406 billion in 2019. “I

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

There’s been plenty of interest in the category over the years, but COVID-19 has accelerated interest on all sides of the equation. Delivery has become one of the fastest growing verticals for robotics investments amid pandemic-related shutdowns. Among this category, however, Agility stands out — in more ways than one.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Truist — one of the nation’s largest financial institutions — has acquired Long Game , a 12-person fintech startup that has raised over $20 million in venture capital, executives have told TechCrunch exclusively. For one, Long Game participated in FIS’s Fintech Accelerator Program.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

After several failed startup attempts and nine years spent building Nuvemshop into Latin America’s answer to Shopify, the four co-founders of the company have managed to raise $30 million in venture capital funding as they look to expand their business. and managing director at Qualcomm Ventures Latin America.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

It was at that point that TripActions made the decision to accelerate the timeline for its fintech expense product, TripActions Liquid, which had launched only a month before the pandemic. billion since its 2015 inception — about $780 million of which was secured during the pandemic.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The Series A funding is led by Runa Capital with Flashpoint Venture Capital and LAUNCHub Ventures also participating. employee/co-working space member engagement, and financial management tools through web and mobile applications. which accounts for 45% of its customers, followed by circa 15% in the U.K.;

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

from Seoul when she was a child and started a global accelerator in 2015. Chang is an angel investor who moved to the U.S. Since then, she has formed a connection to the K-beauty industry and worked with more than 200 early-stage startups.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 26, 2018

First, there are fewer seed investors participating in the market than in 2015, about 40% fewer. The largest accelerators in the US buck the trend, however. Third, all but one of the most active venture capital funds have reduced their seed investment activity. The lines in gray trace the investment counts by firm.

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