TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Zego , the insurtech that got its start by offering flexible motorbike insurance for gig economy workers but has since expanded with a range of tech-enabled commercial motor insurance products, has raised $150 million. Zego has now raised more than $200 million since launching in 2016.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

I mention this because Greg led our investment in a company that I have personally become addicted to called Draft. If you want to read more about our investment you can follow its launch today on ProductHunt , which has become my favorite place now to launch new applications and companies. But it still takes time.

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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. 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

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. ” Zwick added.

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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. Even the more realistic projection, $300 billion , is 10 times the current VC investment market. So why the hold up?

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 19, 2023

As per calculations, this latest funding brings the Chinese tech giant’s total investment in Lazada to nearly US$6 billion since it acquired a controlling stake in the company in 2016, with a major US$1 billion investment then.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

With its latest acquisition Walmart is further investing in technology that will enable shopping via voice and chat. Founded in 2016, Botmock got off the ground just when conversational experiences were starting to be developed.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Recently funded Cake addresses that concern with the launch of its open-source AI infrastructure platform enabling all businesses to deploy the latest technologies cost-effectively. A seasoned entrepreneur and software engineer, he founded McCoy Medical Technologies in 2016 which was acquired two years later.

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Dream It

MAY 18, 2020

Wellth graduated from Dreamit’s Healthtech program in 2016. DaVita Venture Group’s investment in Wellth continues our commitment to caring for the whole health of our kidney disease patients, who must navigate complex care plans” said Steve Phillips, vice president of DaVita Venture Group.

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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. in a single database.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

First off, from Kenya, Koa enables users to save and invest, gaining control over their finances. Lami is an insurance platform and API that enables more individuals and businesses to access insurance coverage. Here are the startups in the 8th cohort. African fintech dominates Catalyst Fund’s 2019 startup cohort.

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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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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 28, 2024

With Boulevard Capital, we developed a unique offering based on our deep understanding of the industry, making funding more equitable and accessible to self-care business owners from diverse backgrounds so they can invest in their continued growth.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

There’s an urgent need for a global air traffic management solution to enable safe and efficient drone and urban air mobility (UAM) operations, and Terra Drone aims to be the leading player building the digital infrastructure in the sky.” . million Series A in February 2021. . and Southeast Asia.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Register Committed to accelerate the digital transformation of the world’s fourth largest population, Privy has partnered with KKR , a leading global investment firm. 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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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.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

Three months later, the startup has a different mission: to power the internet economy in Africa and has closed $2 million in seed investment towards that goal. The investment comes nine months after the company raised $500,000 in pre-seed last September and two months after receiving $125,000 from YC. Image Credits: Mono.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

That commercial product has over 5,000 paying customers today, and the company decided that the time was right to take a $6 million seed investment to build on the product’s growing popularity. 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

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. They were joined by Cisco Investments, DFJ Growth, Intel Capital, ServiceNow Ventures, AMD Ventures, WCM, Amazon, Elad Gil, and Meta.

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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. The investment will help to address the increasing need for cold chain infrastructure in Indonesia as e-commerce and online groceries become more widely adopted by consumers.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 24, 2021

The number of low-income students attending college is increasing: According to a 2016 report from the Pew Research Center , the total share of undergraduate college students who come from low-income families increased from 12% in 1996 to 20% in 2016. This enables candidates to show up as their best selves.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 3, 2023

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. We appreciate our investors’ continued faith and confidence in us,” Chen said. .

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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

About $1B has been invested in early stage SaaS startups as of November 1. The chart above shows the early-stage investment dollars by buyer within the organization. Series A investments totaled $207 million for the first nine months while series B investments touched $720 million. Series B medians were $19.0M

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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

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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

“It’s a trend I’ve seen more broadly and we think professional services is the next category that needs an SMB enabler, and that’s really what we’re trying to do.” 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 25, 2022

Register Singapore-based eyewear house Neso Brands announced raising $100 million that will be used to partner and invest in consumer eyewear brands around the world. Eyewear has to date been a very traditional industry with large incumbents, but is now ripe for a tech-enabled global transformation.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2021

Founded in 2016 by entrepreneur Shan Hanif to help social media influencers develop their brands and extract revenue from their audiences, Genflow combines aspects of a traditional branding agency — such as strategy, design and planning — and a tech company with its own software stack. Leading the round is U.K. investor BGF.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

million seed investment. . During his time at Accra in 2016, he met Quao, a trained pharmacist in Ghana at a hackathon whereupon talking found out that their interests in medical testing overlapped. Redbird enables pharmacies in Ghana to add rapid diagnostic testing for 10 different health conditions to their pharmacy services.

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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. We finished with a diverse base of investors that included 90% from institutional investors and over 40% of investment from new investors.”.

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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. HealthXCapital is an early-stage investment platform that infuses smart and connected financial resources into burgeoning healthcare enterprises.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

InnovaFeed , a vertical insect farm operator that’s rearing insects for animal and plant nutrition, has raised $250 million in a series D round of funding led by Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund. On top of that, InnovaFood creates organic fertilizers out of insect poop to boost plant and crop growth.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 2, 2023

Chosen companies receive support, including a 40-80% rent subsidy, public laboratories, indoor drone testing grounds, and meeting rooms, enabling them to concentrate on technological advancement. Regulations were relaxed, and test sites were created, enabling industrial companies to conduct test flights. billion in 2014 and KRW 4.8

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Months after the initial close of its seed round, Talk360 , a South African Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) startup, has raised an additional $3 million, bringing the total investment raised in the round to $7 million. The app has active users in more than 170 countries, including South Africa, Zimbabwe and Bangladesh. “We

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