StartupNation

OCTOBER 3, 2021

In the wake of the murder of George Floyd and nationwide protests, venture capital firms are making newfound commitments to invest in, or at least evaluate, potential investments that are led by diverse founders. So, what exactly do those action steps look like? So, what exactly do those action steps look like? Let’s take a deeper look.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Drive Capital, Crosscut Ventures, Bonfire Ventures, Matchstick Ventures and HR Tech Investments LLC, a subsidiary of Recruit Holdings Co., The raise marks Branch’s first since 2017. It started off with earned wage access and then began accelerating payments for workers. Lee Fixel is already raising a massive second fund.

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In 2017, we partnered with iconic leaders in American business to turn the thesis we developed on the road — that great companies can start and scale anywhere when given a chance — into an investment vehicle. This trifecta serves as a catalyst for accelerated growth and long-term viability. Plastomics: St. Louis, MO St.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

Founded in 2017, the startup has already empowered more than 10,000 doctors who treat 2.5% The Series C round, led by Avataar Venture Partners and SIG Venture Capital, is divided into $20 million raise against equity and $2 million in debt. of the country’s entire population using the proprietary software. to 3x next year.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

The new capital was obtained as an extension to the company’s Series B, the first tranche of which closed in January. With the latest infusion, Medellin, Colombia-based La Haus has now secured $135 million total for the round and over $158 million in funding since its 2017 inception.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

When Christian Lawless founded Conversion Capital in 2015, fintech was only starting to take off. In the years since Conversion was founded, fintech has essentially exploded — driven by a pandemic-induced, accelerated digital transformation on the part of financial services companies all over the world.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

The round was led by Balderton Capital, alongside existing investors Coparion, Venture Stars and Signature Ventures, as well as an undisclosed investor. The company was founded in 2018 by Christopher May and Henrik Ebbing, but both had previously worked together at McKinsey and started working in blockchain in 2017.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Petal operated under stealth until launching its first product, and announcing its first funding, in September 2017. To date, Petal has raised more than $240 million in equity capital and more than $450 million in debt financing. ” The company also plans to add new features and benefits to its cards.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

25 seed and early-stage startups participate in a 5-month long program ending with a Demo Day showcasing their disruptive innovation For its 2024 global accelerator cohort, Morgan Stanley received thousands of applications. The global financial services firm narrowed its selection down to 25 companies for its I nclusive Ventures Lab.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

Greenlabs , a South Korean agtech startup, announced this week it has closed a $140 million Series C led by BRV Capital Management , with participation from Skylake Incuvest and SK Square. Greenlabs’ pre-money valuation was around $700 million, according to a source familiar with the situation. .

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

marking its highest level since 2017. Despite 2022’s heel turn, the ten-year funding trend line still points to VCs concentrating less capital in the major coastal hubs and more in the rest of the country, a collective area of focus for attendees. Galileo did it first in 1609, and we’re doing it again now.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The Connecticut-based venture capital and holding company has over 60 crypto and blockchain subsidiaries and investments across 30 countries, including LUNO, CoinDesk and Bitso. He referenced his time at Microtraction, an early-stage investment firm he founded in 2017 to back African startups.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2022

If you thought that the recent venture capital market was tough, let me tell you about 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020. That means that 2022’s venture capital story has largely been written. From that point, we’ve seen a slowdown accelerate into what some consider a downturn.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 13, 2023

Capital infusion supports strategic acquisition of competitor GigaMonster’s assets, more than doubling the platform’s footprint TYSONS CORNER, VA. UDR”); capital from this raise will help Gigstreem more rapidly scale its growth and deploy internet services to markets across the country.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

NextView Ventures, a Boston-based venture capital fund, has raised an $89.6 NextView Ventures was launched in 2010 by Rob Go , a former partner at Spark Capital; Dave Beisel , who clocked time at Venrock and Masthead Venture Partners; and Lee Hower, a former investor at Point Judith Capital. More Boston coverage.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Before launching the fund, Google proved helpful in startups’ journeys via its Google for Startups Accelerator Africa program. The accelerator program has supported more than 80 startups in seed to Series A stages with equity-free mentorship and resources. Collectively , they have raised over $100 million in venture capital.

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Startup Catalyst

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

In November 2017 we delivered our first Investor Mission, heading to San Francisco for an intensive week meeting with angels, VCs, corporate venture programs, accelerators, startups, pitch events, and dinners. Catalysed – The ‘Goldilocks’ Zone – by Dan Gavel from Black Sheep Capital. Who we took.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

OpenAI, the San Francisco-based lab behind AI systems like GPT-3 and DALL-E 2, today launched a new program to provide early-stage AI startups with capital and access to OpenAI tech and resources. Called Converge, the cohort will be financed by the OpenAI Startup Fund , OpenAI says.

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Revolution

JULY 13, 2023

Revolution Growth first partnered with Scopely in 2017 when we led the company’s Series C. Scopely’s success in this arena proved its prowess as an industry consolidator, allowing the company to layer more games on top of its existing platform and scale at an accelerated pace.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The deal is a coup not only for companies that eschew venture capital backing — Mailchimp is famous for its bootstrapping history — but also for the city of its founding, Atlanta. The city’s venture acceleration is similar to fundraising gains we’ve seen in markets like Chicago. billion in total capital. city saw $2.17

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The startup raised a total of $107 million from investors, including Highland Capital Partners, White Star Capital, Insight Venture Partners and Nestlé itself, which led the Series C in 2017. “It’s an evolution brought on by the pandemic but taking hold for the long term. .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

Founded in 2017 by Stephanie Strong, the company has a mission to address national overdose rates, particularly with opioid and alcohol use disorders. Analysis from the White House in 2017 shows the cost of the opioid epidemic was over half a billion dollars. Stephanie Strong, CEO of Boulder Care.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Sota Kimura, co-founder and CEO of SmartRyde, founded SmartRyde in 2017 after he experienced trouble getting a taxi from the airport to the hotel when he traveled abroad, Kimura told TechCrunch. SmartRyde announced today it has secured a $1.6 It will also use the funding for global expansion, Kimura said.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 7, 2023

The Tokyo-based robotics startup has further strengthened its funding with investments from KDDI Open Innovation Fund, Airbus Ventures, Monoful Venture Partners, and new investors, including Globis Capital Partners and HH-CTBC Partnership. This additional funding brings Telexistence ‘s total funding to over $190 million (27.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Founded by Mark Straub and William Bares in 2017, Smile Identity is a major player in Africa’s ID verification and KYC compliance industry. In a February interview , Straub noted that Smile Identity would use the growth capital it had secured to expand its KYC capabilities into the market, among other things.

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HPA

MAY 5, 2023

In addition to the capital raise, Bloomfilter announced the general availability of its platform. The financing will allow the company to accelerate product development, customer success, and go-to-market activities. He was the Founder and CEO of Motion AI, a visual chatbot builder, which was successfully acquired by HubSpot in 2017.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The fresh capital was led by an undisclosed global fintech fund with participation from existing investors East Ventures, GGV Capital, eWTP and Emtek. . Launched in 2017, Fuse connects insurance companies with multiple distribution channels and partners to make insurance services accessible and affordable through its technology.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 31, 2023

million in a funding round led by MassMutual Ventures, supported by SEEDS Capital, the investment arm of Enterprise Singapore, and Exfinity Venture Partners. Qritive said it will use this new capital to drive geographical expansion, expand product portfolio and support regulatory clearances.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2022

Third is a token-first structure, which has a “lean cap table” consisting of the startup founders that’s a pure placeholder on the road to a fully tokenized structure, i.e., the primary capital-raising vehicle, Matta said. These structures were popular in the 2017-2018 [Initial Coin Offering] days and have become less prevalent today.”.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 7, 2020

million from the Oklahoma Seed Capital Fund, as well as $500,000 from the Accelerate Oklahoma Fund and $350,000 from the Oklahoma Angel Fund. Oklahoma Seed Capital Fund, Accelerate Oklahoma Fund, and the Oklahoma Angel Fund are each managed by iMCI. The iMCI-led investment in Ten-Nine Technologies includes $1.65

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 21, 2023

Register Indian fintech platform PhonePe has raised an additional $200 million in investments from Walmart, bringing the company closer to its $1 billion target fundraise in capital. The fundraise will also help the company accelerate the growth of UPI payments in India, including UPI lite and credit on UPI.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Booz Allen Hamilton, the Virginia-based, defense-focused IT consulting firm, today announced the launch of a corporate venture capital arm, Booz Allen Ventures, that will initially put $100 million toward “strategic” defensive and offensive technologies.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

That’s why we’re thrilled to have Fuel Capital General Partner Leah Solivan joining us at TechCrunch Early Stage — Operations and Fundraising on April 1 and 2 for a discussion about how to avoid making some of the biggest mistakes early in your founding journey.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Microtraction , an early-stage venture capital firm based in Lagos, Nigeria, saw funding nearly quadruple for its portfolio. Half of its portfolio companies are backed by YC and other global accelerators. On the other hand, Festival Coins is the only startup to be selected into Google for Startups Accelerator.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

The additional capital builds upon a $40 million a raise the company announced earlier this year, bringing its total funding since its 2017 inception to $100 million. Execs say the new capital will go toward making supply chain improvements and moving up research and development timelines.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

As a private company, Coupang has raised billions , including capital from American venture capital firm Sequoia and Japanese telecom giant SoftBank and its Vision Fund. Its first S-1 filing indicates that its IPO will raise capital in the range of $1 billion, far larger than the $100 million placeholder that is more common.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Over the past decade, the company, now based in Los Angeles, raised more than $133 million in venture-backed funding , attracting capital from firms including Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and The Production Board. Despite that setback, the company went on to raise $50 million in 2017. Also, you need capital to do so.

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