TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

When you do something well once in venture capital, you want to keep repeating it, and HOF Capital plans to double down on its strategy of focusing on pre-seed through Series A, now with a brand new $300 million fund, its second institutional early-stage fund. from Egypt 11 years ago.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

It is also licensed by Indonesia’s central bank, enabling it to offer more services. The open finance startup announced today it has closed a $13 million Series B extension round led by SIG Venture Capital, with participation from CE Innovation Capital and returning investor PayU, the payments and fintech business of Prosus.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2022

CEO Marlow Nickell founded Austin-based Clerk in 2016, and while he saw Amazon and Walmart plowing ahead in the marketing and product merchandising spaces, he saw a need from the rest of the space that didn’t have the capacity to innovate there. Hardware is hard and if you don’t do it right, it can be expensive.”. Clerk’s team.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The company, founded in 2016, provides 24/7 live chat and telehealth, ship-to-home prescriptions, vet-curated items in its e-commerce marketplace and educational content and programs. In addition, 25% of the capital was raised from underrepresented communities, Bhettay said. Fuzzy live chat via its app. Image Credits: Fuzzy.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The groundwork was Aadhaar (“foundation” in Hindi), a nationwide database established by the government in 2009 to enable digital identity verification. This helped with fraud and enabled smooth KYC compliance. India today: Regulation enables innovation At present, the revolution is in full swing.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Bengaluru-based artificial intelligence SaaS voice automation company Skit, formerly known as Vernacular.ai, developed its AI-based voice automation platform VIVA, short for Vernacular Intelligent Voice Assistant, which enables corporations to automate 90% of their call center operations powered by Natural Language Understanding (NLU) technology.

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Dream It

MAY 18, 2020

With 85% quarter-on-quarter and 403% year-on-year enrollment growth in Q1 2020, Wellth plans to use this new capital to support rapid scaling to address larger and broader populations of patients. Wellth graduated from Dreamit’s Healthtech program in 2016.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

With a focus on Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Mexico and India, selected startups receive £80,000 (~$100,000) in grant capital, six months of support and connections with follow-on investors. First off, from Kenya, Koa enables users to save and invest, gaining control over their finances. Here are the startups in the 8th cohort.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 22, 2024

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. Scale AI’s name bespeaks the magnitude of its endeavors supported by top venture capital firms and tech giants.

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Onevest

MARCH 19, 2015

It significantly broadens investment opportunities and a startup’s potential to raise capital through only a few legislative provisions. Otherwise called the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, the legislation modifies a series of laws that enable startups to seek funds using methods that have been illegal since FDR's Securities Act of 1933.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2023

” “Fungible’s technologies help enable high-performance, scalable, disaggregated, scaled-out data center infrastructure with reliability and security,” Girish Bablani, the CVP of Microsoft’s Azure Core division, wrote in a blog post.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Kenya-based fintech company 4G Capital , which provides unsecured credit to micro enterprises, has raised $18.5 Already, 4G Capital is conducting trials of its latest retail finance product dubbed Kuza, which allows clients to access goods from FMCG producers and distributors on credit. Image Credits: 4G Capital.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 28, 2023

Sunrate offers a smart global payment and treasury management platform, enabling businesses to streamline their B2B payments and financial operations. With its latest funding infusion, Sunrate is poised to capitalize on this significant market growth. The exact amount of funding secured in this round has not been disclosed.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

For Schwarz customers, with their continued investment in their digital product range, the ability to secure suppliers, consumers and businesses is a key enabler in delivering on the promise of digital transformation,” Erez said. XM Cyber was founded in 2016 and raised $49 million, according to Crunchbase data.

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

million in funding led by Tola Capital. . Breyer Capital, General Catalyst, Naval Ravikant and others also put money in the round, which brings B12’s total funding to $28.1 Revenue has grown “over 50x” since the company’s 2016 funding. The firm first invested in the company in 2016, leading its $12.4

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 3, 2023

To date, the Group has raised over $700 million and secured over $1 billion in capital to support its credit book. Its ecosystem of AI-powered, credit-enabled products and services includes buy now pay later platform Atome, digital lending platform Kredit Pintar, SaaS provider ADVANCE.AI, and ecommerce merchant services platform Ginee.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

million pre-seed funding it has raised from the Founders Factory Africa, FrontEnd Ventures, Adaverse, Gullit, Five35, Renew Capital, Changecom, XA Network, Ajim Capital, Artha Ventures, Daba Finance, Google Black Founders Fund, and several angel investors.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

Mono’s total investment moves up to $2.625 million, and investors in this new round include Entrée Capital (one of the investors in Kuda’s seed round), Kuda co-founder and CEO Babs Ogundeyi; Gbenga Oyebode, partner at TCVP; and Eric Idiahi, co-founder and partner at Verod Capital.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 2, 2023

The investment round was led by SBI Ven Capital, with participation from Kyobo Securities, NTUitive, Trihill Capital, East Ventures and PT Tap Applied Agri Services. from 2016 to 2021 and is forecast to grow at 12.9% The cold chain market in Indonesia grew at a Compound Annual Growth Rate of 10.7% between 2021 and 2026.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Terra Drone said today it has raised $14 million in Series C funding from Wa’ed Ventures , the venture capital arm of Saudi Aramco , marking the VC firm’s first investment in Asia. It declined to comment on its post-money valuation.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Notably, sales startups raised the least amount of capital. If we compare these trends to the total aggregate market capitalization of public SaaS companies by buyer, we observe a few interesting patterns. In addition, there were quite a few analytics companies raising capital this year. Series B medians were $19.0M

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Other participants are existing investors MDI Ventures , GGV Capital and Telkomsel Mitra Inovasi, and new investors including Singtel Innov8. Privy, a digital trust provider, said new investments will further strengthen its position as the leading digital signature and digital identity provider in Indonesia.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The new focus is buoyed by the close of its $142 million Series D funding round, led by an undisclosed partner, with participation from existing investors Initialized Capital and TI Platform Management. We talk in technology that you are either arming the ‘rebels’ or the ‘empire,’ and in their case, they work with both.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

in total capital over five years, after it raised $4.3 million last year from New-York’s Riverside Acceleration Capital (RAC) and a syndicate of Australian investors. This latest round sees Vivi reach $24.3 This is as hybrid learning maintains a growing presence across the country.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Today it is announcing a $4 million Series A, led by Intudo Ventures, an Indonesia-focused venture capital firm, with participation from returning investor Vertex Ventures. . Founded in September 2016, Gredu is now used by more than 400 schools, with a total of 400,000 users.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

LiveOak Venture Partners raised its largest fund to date, $210 million for Fund III, which will enable the Austin-based, early-stage venture capital firm to double down on Texas founders. More than $90 billion was invested into Texas-based companies since 2016, according to Crunchbase data. In 2021, $14.2

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StartupNation

JANUARY 4, 2022

And last but not least, InvestNext launched in 2016, a Detroit-based fintech startup whose mission is to transform the process in which investment firms raise and manage capital. Their software platform enables investment firms to operate more effectively and provide greater transparency to their investors.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Enter Omaha, Nebraska-based Breeze , the company Nabity started in 2019 with Cody Leach to enable individuals to go online and complete in 10 minutes the application process to receive a personalized quote for either disability insurance or critical illness insurance. market for disability insurance was valued at $19.1

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Zaver , a Swedish fintech that enable merchants to accept cardless payments and offer buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) as an option, has raised $5 million in new funding. Backing Zaver’s new round are VCs Inbox Capital (the firm that has invested in the likes of Revolut and Klarna), and Inventure.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 17, 2023

Register Singapore-based venture capital firm Jungle Ventures has announced its merger with HealthXCapital , an early-stage VC firm specializing in healthcare investments. This momentum continued as they raised $100 million for their second fund in 2016, followed by a substantial $240 million for their third fund in 2019.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Savannah Fund , a pan-African venture capital firm, today announced a $25 million fund as it looks to back more early-stage startups on the continent. However , in 2016, Savannah transitioned into venture capital investing, focusing on seed and Series A stages within $25,000 to $500,000 checks.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

Jessica Kim , chief executive officer of ianacare , understands these statistics deeply as she made the difficult choice to leave her job in 2016 to care for her mom full time, as do nearly a third of working caregivers. The fresh capital, which gives ianacare a total of $16.7 ianacare announced this morning it has raised a $12.1

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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. Berkley Corporation, F.I.T.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Nextgen Venture Partners led the round and was joined by Elevate Ventures, Singh Capital and Leadout Capital. million in total funding since the company was founded in 2016, founder Obi Omile Jr. TheCut will also focus on enabling barbers to have more personal relationships with their customers. “We told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2022

South Korean startup Bucketplace , which operates a home decorating and interior app OHouse, is looking to continue capitalizing on that trend with its most recent $182 million Series D round, the startup’s co-founder and CEO Jay Lee said on Monday in an interview with TechCrunch. billion by 2028-end , up from $333.7 billion in 2021.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 23, 2023

Register Malaysian recommerce platform, CompAsia , has secured series A funding in a round led by Gobi Partners , a Pan-Asian venture capital firm. Since its inception in 2016, CompAsia has evolved into a comprehensive solution that enables customers to trade in or acquire electronic devices and offers financing options.

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