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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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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Onevest

MARCH 19, 2015

Even 2012's Congress agreed, passing the JOBS Act with bipartisan support through both the House and Senate. 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

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. More posts by this contributor. 10 Men Making Waves For Women In Tech.

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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. The regulatory approval enables Sunrate to provide regulated financial services within Singapore, further bolstering its credibility and positioning in the industry.

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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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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

It will also support the development of new consumer and enterprise products to enable Indonesians and businesses to access a wider range of services securely and accelerate broader digital transformation. The Company also intends to expand into overseas market to further accelerate growth.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

Working family caregivers spend an average of 25 hours a week caring for their loved ones on top of their full-time jobs, and ultimately, the current lack of support and resources drives 32% of them to leave their job to care full time. . Today, caregiver support is the most overlooked gap in healthcare and employee benefits.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 2, 2023

The 2nd Pangyo Business Support Hub with Drone Enterprise Support Center (Photo = beSUCCESS) In a bid to foster startups and venture companies that will lead the future drone and UAM market, the Korea Institute of Aviation Safety Technology has been operating the Drone Startup Support Center since 2017.

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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

MARCH 23, 2021

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

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. It supports a total fleet size of 1,200 vehicles from over 25 bus companies, including one of the oldest, Easy Coach. Its Gross Merchandise Value was slightly over $30 million in 2022.

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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.” . Terra Drone’s uncrewed traffic management.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

The exuberant acquisition environment should enable some early-stage companies to menace their incumbents and take share, as those behemoths are distracted by M&A. The systems of record for sales, customer support, marketing, human resources have turned over once already since the client/server days and in some categories twice.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

The Japan-headquartered company, which builds drone software, hardware and uncrewed aircraft traffic management software, said the new capital brings its total raised to $97 million since its inception in 2016. It declined to comment on its post-money valuation.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Once a certain number of green energy points are accumulated, users can convert them into donations funded by Ant Group to support environmental initiatives. Initially, Ant Forest enabled users to contribute to tree planting initiatives via collaborating with environmental partners like conservation organizations.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 18, 2023

Hydroleap was founded in 2016 by Mohammad Sherafatmand, a Ph.D. The Singapore -based startup’s electrochemical techniques have proven highly effective in treating industrial wastewater, enabling a remarkable reduction of up to 95% in pollutants. graduate in Environmental Engineering from the National University of Singapore.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Founded in September 2016, Gredu is now used by more than 400 schools, with a total of 400,000 users. Gredu Parents enables parents and guardians to keep track of their kids’ performance and talk to teachers. The startup is also developing new verticals, including software for preschools and university programs. .

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

Since its founding in 2016, the company has raised $200 million in investment capital. “Automated inspection of vehicles enabled by advanced computer vision and AI is in its first innings, but will completely transform the auto industry,” Lior Prosor, partner at Hanaco VC, noted in a prepared statement. Ventures L.P.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 15, 2023

Polii’s interest in the world of investments follows the growing trend of renowned athletes supporting sports technology companies. Ayo Indonesia offers an online platform that enables users to effortlessly book sports venues and connect with opponents or teammates.

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Startup Catalyst

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

The last time I had visited was mid-2016 when I was getting ready to leave QUT. QUT has been a supporter of Startup Catalyst for four years. We could see that there was value in supporting students across the university to participate in this event. Both organisations have changed significantly in that time.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 13, 2017

These two instincts collided for me on 20 April, 2016, when my wife delivered a clever knock-knock joke to inform me that I would soon be a dad. My fellow EO members have offered tremendous support during this period, not only from an emotional standpoint, but also by sharing personal experiences of how they got through similar challenges.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

To solve the problems of traditional electronic media, a startup in Boston, Catalog , was founded in 2016 by MIT scientists including co-founder and CEO Hyunjun Park, developing an energy efficient, cost competitive, and more secure data storage and computation platform by using synthetic DNA.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JANUARY 9, 2019

billion between 2012 and 2016. Ben Franklin does this by serving as a powerful ally for startups and innovation-led companies and by providing the essential support they need to thrive and succeed.”. Billion, Created 11,407 Jobs from 2012 to 2016: Challenges remain because of state funding shortfalls appeared first on BFTP/CNP.

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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

APRIL 20, 2021

The test is taking place under a sandbox program announced back in May 2019 — directing government funding and regulatory support to R&D in the drone space — initially through virtual testing, such as of avoid and detect systems. company, the regulator said today. Under current U.K. So while (another) U.K.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 17, 2023

The partnership is set to infuse Jungle Ventures with the expertise of the HealthXCapital team, enabling the firm to diversify its investment portfolio and expand its existing healthcare-related investments. This fund has been instrumental in supporting and catalyzing the growth of healthcare startups targeting underserved Asian markets.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 23, 2023

The funding injection will support CompAsia’s ambition to expand its presence in Asia. 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. The exact amount of funding remains undisclosed.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

To support this push into the U.S. “It will enable us to access a deep source of feedstock and significantly increase our production capacity.” “It will enable us to access a deep source of feedstock and significantly increase our production capacity.” Growth industry. InnovaFeed at work.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

. “As the creator economy grows, creators want new ways to collect payments and support from their audience with as little friction as possible,” said Linktree co-founder and CEO Alex Zaccaria in a statement. Founded in 2016, Linktree now competes with several “link in bio” platforms, including Shorby, Linkin.bio and Beacons.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JULY 28, 2021

NanoSpec Instruments, located in Centre County, has developed innovative noise subtraction technology that enables the manufacture of time-resolved spectroscopic instrumentation, which is faster, easier, and more sensitive to use. www.magnitudeinstruments.com. www.teamology.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. The problems are more exacerbated the more pets that are added to the system, which has not grown in a way to support that,” Mawhinney added.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Launched in 2016, the startup works with a network of agents, who recruit farmers and retailers to its platform. That could be new crops that enable customers to earn more money,” said Pollak, who co-founded Apollo with Benjamin Njenga and Earl St Sauver. The agritech is scouting for growth opportunities in East and West Africa. “We

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The latest funding gives the company roughly $21 million in total funding raised to date, which includes a $3 million seed round in 2016 and $8 million in Series A funding from 2019. The new funding will enable the company to continue to grow its team and invest in R&D.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

But with an edge computing setup, the data can be processed on-site, eliminating cloud computing costs and enabling processing at greater speeds and volumes (in theory). Ouissal has a product to sell — Zededa works with customers to help manage edge devices — but he points to Zededa’s growth to support his claim.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Podcast advertising company Acast is announcing that it has acquired RadioPublic , the startup that spun out of public radio marketplace PRX in 2016. At first, RadioPublic’s main product was a mobile app for podcast listening, and it still supports the app. ” MacDonald said.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

One of the fastest-growing private companies links its’ success to furthering social causes In 2016 when David Berkal, CEO of Banyan Software, founded his company he envisioned it to be an alternative for fellow entrepreneurs when deciding upon their companies’ futures. says Berkal.

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