Revolution

JANUARY 18, 2022

Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Potomac, MD, the company set out to transform the process of getting homes move-in-ready with a streamlined approach to better automate home improvement. What do you look for in an investment partner? The recent millennial house-buying boom and supply chain setbacks have exacerbated these issues.

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FundersClub

JUNE 15, 2017

technology startup founders and how that affects the gender diversity of the employees they hire in " The 2017 US Startup Team Gender Diversity Study. " Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures draws parallels between ICOs and private investment rounds and lists some key points to think about regarding ICOs in " Buyer Beware.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Incredibly, prior to the investment, ProsperOps had only raised around $800,000. “This investment allows us to expand the scope of the work we perform for our customers and continue growing our engineering and sales teams.” Microsoft in 2017 acquired Cloudyn, which provided tools to analyze and forecast cloud spending.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

It’s now raised a $5 million Series A round led by Genesis Investments, with participation from TMT Investments, TerraVC and existing investors Flashpoint and Misha Lyalin. The Ukraine-based startup will now enter new markets and strengthen its positions in Poland, Russia, Spain and Latin America.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

Magnetar contributed $111 million, with the remainder of the investment being split between Nvidia, Friedman and Gross. An Nvidia spokesperson said that the investment represents a “deepening” of its partnership with CoreWeave. Intrator says that the new tranche will lead to more efforts like this.

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 3, 2023

Sebastian led Innovation Management in 3 verticals before becoming a corporate intrapreneur in the automotive industry in 2017, where he created numerous in-house startups, going through ideation to scale-up stages. Since 2018, he is investing with an emerging tech VC focused on web3 and managing early-stage deal flow.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2022

While many funds are returning to more conservative check-writing , with a focus on profitability and business fundamentals, crypto remains a sector in the spotlight that attracts dedicated billion-dollar funds and investment terms that remind us more of 2021 than 2022. Influx of cash-rich attention.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Funds will be used for commercialization and expansion PHOENIX, October 25, 2023 – Planatome, a medical device company that applies atomic-level polishing from the semiconductor industry to create advanced surgical blades that lead to better patient outcomes, today announced the closing of its $5M Series A equity investment round.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

This undisclosed investment is Google’s third from the $50 million Africa Investment Fund targeted at the continent’s early- and growth-stage startups, which the company CEO Sundar Pichai announced last October. The fund is part of Google’s plan to invest $1 billion in “tech-led initiatives” over the next five years.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

The open source product proved so popular that he launched a company to support it in 2017, and began building a commercial product for users with enterprise requirements. DBeaver takes $6M seed investment to build on growing popularity by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The startup, founded in 2017, partnered with IBM to create a blockchain-based stablecoin for instant payment processing. million in funding to date through its 2017 seed round, which was led by Freestyle Capital’s Dave Samuel and featured participation from a host of angel investors in venture and fintech. It has raised $3.3

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 30, 2020

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was signed into law in 2017 by POTUS and out of that law came the Opportunity Zones legislation and initiative. If you want to be a business owner, what assets does your community have that can attract investment? The post Investing In Distressed Communities. Opportunity Zones and What They Are.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 3, 2024

After my job salary was cut on February 10, 2017, I had to quickly figure out a solution for success. Despite having zero business background, I started my first company on April 16, 2017. Keep making bigger investments into smaller rooms, where the people in those rooms are making bigger impacts. They live in full abundance.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The venture arm of Volvo Cars, an automaker long synonymous with safety, has invested in an optics and imaging startup developing technology that can be integrated into a car’s windshield or windows to deliver images to drivers and passengers. Image Credits: Tal Givoni for Spectralis (opens in a new window).

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Revolution

JULY 18, 2024

JD Vance worked at Revolution for about a year and a half, starting in 2017, following the publication of his best-selling book, Hillbilly Elegy. JD helped launch the first Rise of the Rest Seed fund, joined us for a number of Rise of the Rest Road trips, and led investments in companies such as Anduril, Branch Insurance, and FreightWaves.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 22, 2022

Register Finhay , Vietnam’s premier digital investment platform , has secured $25 million in its Series B funding round co-led by Openspace Ventures and VIG. We believe a massive opportunity exists in Vietnam, which has an enterprising population hungry for the chance to invest smartly. With more than 2.7

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 15, 2020

I wrote yesterday , about the quarterly numbers for VC investing activity: If this was a student coming home with a report card, it would be straight As. Firms invested a total of $434 million in Q3—the lowest figure since the second quarter of 2017, according to PitchBook data.

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A Smart Bear

JANUARY 4, 2018

Of course a nice chunk is primary capital, i.e. for the company balance sheet, to invest in growth initiatives, security and quality, and advancing our existing strategic priorities through acceleration and de-risking. The majority of the funds pay back our early investors who believed in us enough to trust us with their money.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

With this in mind, Aptiv might have a more long-term reason to invest strategically in a scalable system architecture that functions under the hood of autonomous vehicles. The tech, which was originally launched in 2017, is already in over 2 million passenger vehicles worldwide, including Hyundai vehicles.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 26, 2017

Over the last seven years, software startup investing has changed quite a bit. Which of these markets are growing the fastest for investment dollars? The chart above breaks out 14 different software categories and shows the amount of dollars invested in each category indexed to 2010 levels.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Without that, it’s difficult to determine what is right from what is wrong, or what is a strong investment from a shortsighted one. Investors need to start thinking about ESG risk in the same way they consider investment risk, as a first step. So how do we value ESG performance and make it more actionable?

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 19, 2022

intends to use the funding to investment in technology and scale its business operations and teams in the United States, India and the Middle East. It was also the first investment for Sorin Investments, an early-stage tech fund founded by private equity veteran Sanjay Nayar, Former Chairman of KKR India. Uniqus Consultech Inc.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 9, 2020

His successful journey to freedom is taking a new detour Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Titan , a startup that is building a retail investment management platform aimed at millennials, has closed on $12.5 We came from two different backgrounds with respect to investing,” Percoco recalled. “He I’m the exact opposite and couldn’t invest myself until after Goldman Sachs, where I went to work after Penn.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2023

Image Credits: Semgrep Evans said when the company launched in 2017, he had this vision of doing something like this and set out to build it, but they were having trouble building something specifically for developers. And then we also have a vertically integrated SaaS solution that sits on top of that,” Evans explained.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Burns left Twitter in 2017 to join GV, formerly known as Google Ventures. Read on for a Q&A with Burns about her investment thesis, role change and plans as partner. Her hope has now been met with recognition. GV has promoted Terri Burns to partner, making her the first Black woman to hold that role — and the youngest ever.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

While FireEye was at it, it also announced a $400 million investment from Blackstone Tactical Opportunities fund and ClearSky (an investor in Respond), giving the public company a new influx of cash to make additional moves like the acquisition it made today. It didn’t come cheap. per share,” the company explained in a statement.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The investment is the largest-ever Series A round for the region, and it values Wave at $1.7 Four big-name backers jointly led the round — Sequoia Heritage, a private investment fund and a subsidiary of Sequoia; Founders Fund; payments upstart Stripe; and Ribbit Capital. Wave , a U.S. Both were Series C rounds.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Most recently, Tencent invested in FJ Dynamics, a Chinese startup selling agricultural automation solutions such as smart tractors and rice transplanters as well as unmanned vehicles for ports and factories to clients around the world. Founded in 2017, FJ Dynamics has links to several big-name corporations in China.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Founded in Estonia and now headquartered in New York, the company has taken a majority investment from U.S. Another Atomico investment, Klarna, also achieved so-called “decacorn” status with a valuation of $10.6 enterprise software focused private equity firm Vista Equity Partners.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Ahmed became acquainted with Swanson while working at Swanson’s last startup, DataScience.com, which was acquired by Oracle in 2017. investment to harden AI projects from attack by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch. “We have several years of cash runway available to continue to advance this field.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

Risk factors Prewave founders Harald Nitschinger and Lisa Smith Image Credits : Prewave Founded out of Vienna in 2017 by Harald Nitschinger and Lisa Smith, Prewave touts itself as a holistic supply chain risk platform that spans “every phase of the risk lifecycle,” through identifying, analyzing, mitigating, and reporting these risks.

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Revolution

JULY 13, 2023

Revolution Growth first partnered with Scopely in 2017 when we led the company’s Series C. Core to our investment thesis was Scopely’s platform approach to IP partnership and game development, its exceptional ability to drive monetization among users, and the team’s dedication to becoming the preeminent free-to-play mobile gaming publisher.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Investment apps in Southeast Asia are attracting a lot of funding, and now some are raising fast follow-on rounds, too. The latest round’s lead investor is Valar Ventures, which also led Syfe’s Series A, marking the fintech-focused venture capital firm’s first investment in an Asian startup. Syfe founder Dhruv Arora.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 4, 2017

Late stage market dynamics are changing as hedge funds and mutual funds seek other areas to invest. In 2017, there will be a lot of comparison between the prices public bound companies fetch at IPO compared to the last round private valuations as the public window opens. So, which is the hardest round to raise in 2017?

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