AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Register Singapore’s Jungle Ventures has announced the launch of First Cheque@Jungle , a new program aimed at investing in startups during their pre-seed and seed stages. Second, the program offers an initial investment without imposing minimum ownership criteria. Over the years, it has consistently grown in size and impact.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 27, 2023

South Korea’s largest accelerator program– the K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) is the unique opportunity for global startups to enter the flourishing market of Asia. The 2023 edition of the accelerator, running from July 25 to November 10, will focus on deep tech startups.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 24, 2023

Register Mark & Company, led by CEO Kyungpyo Hong, has announced the establishment and management of a new venture investment fund in partnership with Yoonmin Creative Investment Foundation, chaired by Minseop Sung. 1, launched in July 2021.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 28, 2023

The funding was led by Prosperity7 Ventures, a growth fund associated with Aramco Ventures, and included additional investment from SoftBank Ventures Asia. Paul Meng, the co-founder of Sunrate, expressed his appreciation for the investments made by new and existing prestigious investors.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Jake Jolis is a partner at Matrix Partners and invests in seed and Series A technology companies including marketplaces and software. Dana Stalder is a partner at Matrix Partners, where he invests predominantly in fintech, consumer marketplaces and enterprise software. Fintech Index, 2016 -2020 Image Credits: CapiQ, Yahoo Finance.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

AMF, ATP, Baillie Gifford, Baron Capital Group, Bridford Investments Limited, Compagnia di San Paolo through Fondaco Growth, Cristina Stenbeck, Daniel Ek, IMAS Foundation, EIT InnoEnergy, Norrsken VC, PCS Holding, Scania and Stena Metall Finans also participated in the raise. billion since the company was founded in 2016.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Founded in 2016, Terra Drone develops drone software, hardware and uncrewed aircraft system traffic management solutions. The firm acquired a Netherlands-based drone company, Terra Inspectioneering , in 2018 and invested in Belgium’s drone company Unifly in 2016. . million Series A in February 2021. . and Southeast Asia.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

million last year from New-York’s Riverside Acceleration Capital (RAC) and a syndicate of Australian investors. 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.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Some of its well-known investments include South African car subscription company, FlexClub; Kenyan on-demand logistics company, Sendy; and Nigerian fintech company, Lidya. Before becoming a VC firm, Savannah Fund started as an accelerator program in Kenya. Mbwana Ally (Managing Partner, Savannah Fund).

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Delve into his story as it unfolds with lessons from filmmaking, startup ventures, and the fascinating world of technology innovations and investing. “My work with startups and the ecosystem began in 2016 when I founded Startupmedia to help startups and the ecosystem tell their stories and school myself in starting/scaling businesses.

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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. Speak was founded in 2016 by Connor Zwick and Andrew Hsu, both of whom had an acute interest in AI from an early age.

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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. Here is the Google Doc where we tracked these.]

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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. Investment has also trickled down to Africa, with large checks going into growth-stage startups. The company was founded in 2016 by Femi Kuti , Opeyemi Olumekun and Matthew Mayaki.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Companies in every sector are investing in the latest technologies with an eye toward winning in their markets with AI, said Misha Herscu, CEO and co-founder of Cake. A seasoned entrepreneur and software engineer, he founded McCoy Medical Technologies in 2016 which was acquired two years later.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

Catalyst Fund , a global accelerator managed by BFA Global , announced the 8th cohort for its Inclusive Fintech Program today. The accelerator, backed by the JP Morgan Chase and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, runs the flagship program annually. In 2020, all five countries had representatives in the accelerator.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Their heightened interest is reflected not just in their demand for ESG reports but also in surging investment volumes. Data from the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance highlights a staggering 605% increase in Sustainably-Themed Investing in 2020 compared to 2016.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2023

European accelerators are going through an interesting time right now. And I think it’s now commonly accepted that most accelerators outside of YCombinator can too be often ‘less than adequate’, to put it diplomatically. Having said that, accelerators still have a role to play in Europe’s emerging ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

I spoke with Sopoong chief executive Max Sang-Yeop Han , a serial entrepreneur who joined Sopoong in 2016 and acquired the firm in 2019, to learn about the VC’s plans. Nine of the 16 portfolio companies are participating in Sopoong’s first accelerator program, which launched in June and runs for six months.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

As a Black fintech founder, I believe that venture investors are making safe bets and investing in late-stage founders instead of early or even pre-seed stages. However, I didn’t receive a single response while other founders received VC investment for basic ideas. Make serious headway with accelerators.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 22, 2024

The company moves to the next phase of accelerating the abundance of frontier data, building a path to artificial general intelligence. Scale AI was founded in 2016 by Alexandr Wang and Lucy Guo who since left to launch Passes. The funding enables the company to move into the next phase of accelerating the abundance of frontier data.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

Amazon’s first foray into the world of accelerator programs, designed to help early-stage startups build and launch, was focused on conversational AI back in 2016. Now, seven years later, Amazon has another AI accelerator – this time led by Amazon Web Services with a focus on the newest zeitgeist: generative artificial intelligence.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

It’s not a tech company this time — Awoyemi co-founded online jobs site Jobberman (which was acquired by ROAM Africa in 2016) and Whogohost, a bootstrapped hosting platform — but instead, a venture studio: Fast Forward Venture Studio. “First, we’re more hands-on than funds and incubators or accelerators.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 23, 2021

We managed to deliver a net sales of nearly $25 million in under 2 years and by the end of 2016, it seemed like nothing would stop us. Money is not the Key to Happiness or Success Back in 2015, when we were beginning to see early signs of success, we desperately wanted to raise outside capital to accelerate the company’s growth.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 2, 2022

K-Startup Grand Challenge launched in 2016 In April 2016, the K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) was started. K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) Program is the flagship accelerator program for international startups looking to enter the competitive Asian market. were chosen from the pool of applications.

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A Smart Bear

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Another is to prioritize accelerating sales until that customer represents a percentage of revenue that you can stomach. Also, up-front payments, so you have the cash-flow to invest in that growth right now. But they recognized in 2016 that they were a single-product company. “One key employee” is brittle.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 27, 2016

The following article was written by Glen Carlson , co-founder of the Key Person of Influence Business Accelerator, for the March 2016 edition of Octane magazine : Consider the three types of branding you can develop as a business owner: a company brand, a product brand and a personal brand. is about taking that pitch and scaling it.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 18, 2022

Korean government’s accelerator program K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) , supported by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups (MSS) and organized by the National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA), is all set to invite applications from world entrepreneurs for its 2022 chapter. At the end of the 3.5

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

million to fund product innovation and accelerate its growth in the markets that need board management tools the most. With the new investments, Middlesworth said they will now be able to fund more product innovations and accelerate their growth in markets that are in need of board management tools. Remember Me. No account yet?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Burrow participated in the Y Combinator accelerator in 2016 with an initial aim of building sofas that, by virtue of being modular, were easier to move and adapt to a variety of living spaces. Burrow , a startup that first launched with a modular sofa , eventually aims to sell you furniture for every room in your home.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

“For XM Cyber customers, this means that with the financial backing of Schwarz, we will be able to accelerate product innovation, scale and extend our global reach. XM Cyber was founded in 2016 and raised $49 million, according to Crunchbase data. Time will tell on that front.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 18, 2023

The funding was led by Real Tech Holdings, a prominent Japanese Venture Capital firm, with the participation of corporate investors, including Mitsubishi Electric, Seeds Capital, Wavemaker Partners, New Keynes Investments, and the State Government of Victoria in Australia. Hydroleap was founded in 2016 by Mohammad Sherafatmand, a Ph.D.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 6, 2016

The startup fundraising market in 2016 has been difficult to characterize. This posts analyses US headquartered information technology companies which VC-led investment rounds, except for the $793M Series C in Magic Leap , which I excluded as an outlier. VCs invested about $2B in January and February 2016.

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HPA

MARCH 3, 2022

HPA has been an investor in Catalytic since the Series Seed investment in 2016. This definitive agreement to acquire Catalytic will enable PagerDuty to take its automation capabilities to the next level by accelerating the delivery of enterprise-wide process automation. Congratulations to the Catalytic team!

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Revenue has grown “over 50x” since the company’s 2016 funding. Over time, B12’s model has evolved as the pandemic accelerated digital everything, including payments. The firm first invested in the company in 2016, leading its $12.4 .” Image Credits: B12. million funding round.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

It’s now raised $103 million since its launch in 2016. Additional investment came from Iris Capital, with strong participation from current investors, including Rider Global, Northzone, Cherry Ventures and the Italian venture fund H14. The round was led by Inven Capital, a growth fund out of the Czech Republic.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 20, 2019

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) is a new form of VC financing, distinct from the preferred equity structure most VCs use. of venture capital deals.

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