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

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Munich-based AM Ventures just closed a $100 million fund focusing specifically on the early growth stages of industrial and commercial 3D printing applications. AM Ventures’ co-founders and managing partners, Arno Held (left) and Johann Oberhofer (right) Image Credits: AM Ventures. Somehow we just ended up in VC.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

McKinsey expects the chemical and pharma industries to be the first potential users of quantum computing, enabling the accurate simulation of larger numbers of atoms and molecules, which is not possible today using classical supercomputers. The company was founded in 2015, and it went public in 2021 through a SPAC at a $2 billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Into this world, the Chargifi — which we wrote about in 2015 — start-up found itself. They had been building Chargifi for seven years, enabling users to access mobile power using the free app in any public location with a ‘Chargifi Spot’ – such as a bar, stadium, hotel or office. Kadence screen.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Most importantly, there is a reasonable probability that the absence of standard governance guardrails and constraints actually enables reckless behavior. The post Venture Capital Red Flag Checklist appeared first on Above the Crowd. The odds are quite low, but it is possible. Aversion to Audits. Large Secondary Transactions.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The two firms have also signed a joint venture deal that will transform and streamline the online insurance distribution and claims process for customers and insurers alike. Fusion will also enable Carro to easily embed and control insurance journeys for customers. This journey is now available for Carro in Singapore and Malaysia.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

million Series A round co-led by Upfront Ventures and IA Ventures. The technology that enables companies to safely and securely compare customer data is thankfully entering a new phase, driven by privacy-conscious consumers and companies focused on value and control. and Germany.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The latest funding was led by QUAD , with participation from ASICS Ventures Corporation , 15th Rock Ventures, Pacifico Investments and SOSV. Bisu was founded in 2015 and started business in 2017 when it entered the HAX accelerator program. The seed funding brings its total raised to $4.3

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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. The latest round brings its total funding raised to $41.4 million, the company said without disclosing its valuation.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2022

Founded out of Berlin in 2015, Wefox sells various insurance products through a combination of in-house and external brokers, bypassing the direct-to-consumer model of insurtech competitors which include rival German startup Getsafe. This represents a 50% increase on last year’s $3 billion valuation at its Series C round.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The round was led by Unusual Ventures, with Unusual’s John Vrionis joining the board. While Arrikto has stayed off the radar since it launched out of Athens, Greece in 2015, the founding team of Venetsanopoulos and CTO Vangelis Koukis already managed to get a number of large enterprises to adopt its platform.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

AmazeVR , a virtual reality concert platform that enables users to experience their favorite artists’ VR concerts through content generation tools, announced today it has secured $15 million, which was oversubscribed within three weeks. . AmazeVR has raised a total of $30.8

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

The fund, created with the backing of Oxfam Novib Impact Investments, will provide venture debt with a focus on mezzanine finance, which is a debt that can be turned into equity. The fund targets high-impact tech-enabled businesses, “because the combination of tech and brick-and-mortar works best in these environments.

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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 1, 2021

Tribe Capital led the round and was joined by NewView Capital and existing investor Nexus Venture Partners. The latest funding gives the San Francisco-based company $40 million in total funding since it was founded in 2015, co-founder and CEO Tim Zheng told TechCrunch.

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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

JANUARY 19, 2021

The deal came a year after Kneron closed a $40 million round led by Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-Shing’s Horizons Ventures. Founded in 2015, Kneron’s latest product is a neural processing unit that can enable sophisticated AI applications without relying on the cloud.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

Stephen Harper, the country’s prime minister from 2006 to 2015, famously quipped that the region suffered from “ a culture of defeatism.” VC firms have taken notice: notable investors in Atlantic Canadian startups include Breakthrough Energy Ventures , a fund supported by Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson. venture capital.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

Paris-originated VC Breega wasn’t enormously well known in the VC world (it only closed its first fund in 2015) until, perhaps, it started attracting attention with its second €110 million seed fund, just under a year go. It’s portfolio now includes a number of scaleups including Moneybox, Cuvva, Coverflex and Libeo.

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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

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

This round was led by Monk’s Hill Ventures, with participation from returning seed investors Iterative, XA Network and iSeed Ventures. CoderSchool raised a seed round led by TRIVE Ventures in 2018. CoderSchool, a Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam-based online coding school startup, announced today $2.6 “Coding is the future. “The

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Liberis’ core business is to enable partners to offer embedded business finance to their customers,” Rob Straathof, CEO of Liberis, tells TechCrunch. Through our single API integration, we receive privileged data from our partners which enables Liberis to offer hyper-personalised and pre-approved finance to SMEs,” he explains. “By

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HPA

JUNE 29, 2021

The Series E financing was led by Bain Capital Ventures, with participation from Hyde Park Angels, SoftBank, Menlo Ventures, Hyde Park Venture Partners and Silicon Valley Bank. ShipBob , the leading cloud-based ecommerce logistics platform, announced $200 million in funding at over $1B valuation.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Amazon, through its India-focused Smbhav Venture Fund , has led a $104 million Series D financing round in the Bengaluru-headquartered startup, the two said Tuesday. This is the largest check that the $250 million Smbhav Venture Fund has written so far. The new round takes FreshToHome’s all-time raise to over $250 million.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Scrona AG caused a minor splash all the way back in 2015 when it snagged a Guinness World Record for the “smallest inkjet-printed color image.” million Series A led by AM Ventures and a $2.9 The 80 × 115 micrometer picture of clownfish was a great talking point for a firm in the midst of a Kickstarter campaign.

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HPA

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

ShipBob , an ecommerce enablement technology company that provides fulfillment by bringing fast shipping options to ecommerce businesses, announced that it raised $68M in a Series D funding round. This round of funding will enable ShipBob to expand its software program, increase its customer base and scale its global fulfillment network.

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Dream It

APRIL 29, 2019

In 2015, a professor named Andrew Tallon painstakingly used laser scanning and spatial mapping technology to document Notre Dame. Bowery Valuation raised a $12M Series A for their tech-enabled real estate appraisal platform. Smart home security startup Kangaroo raised a $10M Series A from Greycroft Ventures.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Fintech-focused investor Tonic Private Equity led the Series G round along with returning backers, including Korea Development Bank (KDB), Altos Ventures, Goodwater Capital, Greyhound Capital, Aspex Management, Bond Capital, and DUMAC. The Seoul-based company had about 1,900 employees as of August. . billion won) and $175.8 million (229.3

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Contact: William Paiva, Managing Partner, OLSF Ventures. BROKEN ARROW, OK – OLSF Ventures (OLSF) recently led a $4.5 OLSF Ventures was joined in the investment by Plains Venture Partners, managed by i2E Management Company, Inc. Atento Capital ; Cortado Ventures ; Sante Accel Ventures and Angel investors.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

The firm is not out to replace traditional venture capital or venture debt, emphasizes founder and CEO James Sagan, but rather to offer asset-based products that will complement them. Essentially, we’re providing an additional instrument for asset-heavy businesses that will allow them to scale in a way that venture debt will not.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

It enabled them to see and understand firsthand the issues associated with exchanging large proprietary 3D files from vendors like Autodesk and Trimble. ” The two founders began looking at this problem in 2015. They wanted to make it easier by building an open source platform to exchange and collaborate on these files. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Taing founded Bokksu in 2015 and launched a Japanese snack subscription service in 2016. The funding was led by Valor Siren Ventures , with participation from Company Ventures , St. The fresh capital will also enable Bokksu to accelerate its primary business lines: subscription, market and grocery. Canada, the U.K,

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

In 1989, the second part of the blockbuster Back to the Future trilogy introduced a version of 2015 where individuals could use fingerprints to unlock doors, pay for taxis, and make donations to save broken clock towers.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

The platform helps from research to ordering and enables buyers to source their food and agriculture items at reasonable prices in more than 150 countries. million since its inception in 2015. Its fulfillment solution serves as a middleman for more than 15,000 agricultural products, enabling buyers to source and get delivered on time.

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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

AUGUST 17, 2021

This round of funding was led by DST Global, with additional participation from Aspex Management, Reverent Partners and existing investors such as Goodwater Capital, Altos Ventures, SoftBank Ventures Asia, Kakao Ventures, Strong Ventures and Capstone Partners.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 30, 2023

In addition to his rich experiences working in the venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) sectors, Joseph has also sharpened his investment acumen through his multiple years in the audit and stock-broking industry before deciding to finally launch his cross-border investment firm, Kairous Capital , in 2015.

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