TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

In the past decade, the majority have reacted to and mirrored changes in the startup space, helping to raise the bar for CVC investments. At Wayra, we’ve adapted our strategy a number of times to ensure that we evolve as the startup ecosystem does.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

We live in a world with a stereotypical representation of what a startup founder looks like, so it’s no wonder that a large portion of the population feels underrepresented. A Gender Gap Grader study shows that women represent 9 percent of developers in the startup ecosystem. Myth 4: Startup founders are white.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

A new foreign investment bill will impact venture capital and the US startup ecosystem. The startup community must defend merit-based immigration. Firms were also more likely to report that they typically seek external candidates for open positions than they did in 2018. More posts by this contributor.

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StartupNation

MAY 18, 2021

Driving the formation and growth of a significant percentage of new company startups, arguably those that touch our lives most broadly, are the angel and venture funding fueling them. How important is angel funding to the startup ecosystem? In addition, angels are more diverse than venture capitalists.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Ukrainian startups are the horse to bet on The Ukrainian startup ecosystem has developed rapidly in the past few years. Up until 2018, there wasn’t a single unicorn from Ukraine. Today, there are at least six Ukrainian startups with a $1 billion valuation: GitLab Grammarly Genesis Bitfury People.ai

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 22, 2023

He started his first business aged 18 and received the New Zealand Angel Association’s Arch Angel award in 2018 as New Zealand’s top angel investor. Moskovitz believes that if entrepreneurs and government collaborate, the conditions to increase entrepreneurship will improve. Moskovitz is an entrepreneur’s entrepreneur.

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Startup Catalyst

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

I’m Rosie Odsey and I interviewed Rowena Barrett from QUT in late August 2018. She was recently awarded the Lord Mayor’s Young and Emerging Artist Fellowship for 2018. Rowena on the European Mission in 2018 where they visited Facebook and lunched with the 3 Aussies who now work there. Roles within the ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

With the latest financing, San Francisco-based Vouch has now raised a total of $160 million since its 2018 inception. While there are many insurance technology companies out there that serve consumers, there are far fewer that offer it to companies, much less startups. Insurtech is hot on both sides of the Atlantic.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – (February 7, 2023) Keiretsu Forum, a global network of angel investors, is exploring an expansion into the Texas startup ecosystem. Of note, Keiretsu Forum deal counts in 2022 remained well above 2018 and 2019 (pre-pandemic) levels. This could bring new investors, funds, and deal flow to the region.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

Startups may not spring to mind when speaking about the beautiful country of Croatia. Indeed, the country is most popular as a tourist destination, and given that tourism accounted for about 20% of its GDP in 2018 , to an extent, its pre-pandemic focus was mostly on growing its share of the international tourism market. Agrivi, Repsly.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

6 VCs talk the future of Austin’s exploding startup ecosystem. While building a company here between 1994 and 2003, I saw the Texas ecosystem firsthand and was excited about what it offered,” Smith told TechCrunch. “It Later, Royan ran into a bit of controversy a year later.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 24, 2023

We’re honored to again be recognized by the venture capital community and are incredibly grateful for the support it provides not only to Boulevard but the entire startup ecosystem,” said Matt Danna, co-founder and CEO, Boulevard. “We This is Boulevard’s second consecutive appearance on the prestigious list.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

tech startup scene. Tech City UK, its predecessor, was launched in 2011 by former prime minister David Cameron and concentrated largely on the London ecosystem until 2018 when it merged with Tech North (based in Manchester). The idea of Government as a provider of startup advice to founders backed by Tier 1 VCs is finished.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2023

Employee stock options are a meaningful factor in startup compensation, and underwater stock options have the potential to negatively impact hiring and retention across the startup ecosystem. Looking ahead, the data suggests that 2023 will continue to be challenging for late-stage startups. Underwater stock options.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

Startups and VC. The startup ecosystem has traditionally been less-than-friendly to women founders and investors, but Mimi Aboubaker argues things aren’t as dire as the common narrative seems to indicate. It was worth nearly $140 per share back in 2018. My precious. The saga of Chinese companies on U.S.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

(That $63 million sale took place in 2018.) Both cities have a growing tech scene that is not yet saturated with VC firms, and each has different focuses at the core of their startup ecosystems. Other companies in our portfolio include Benson Hill, Gosite and GigaIO. Why did you open an office in Austin? Louis well.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

.’s Tech Nation found in 2018 that about 26% of Belfast’s workforce was employed in tech, and it is among cities in the country with the highest growth potential for 2021. With that in mind, we reached out to founders, investors and executives in the city to get an inside look at the state of the current tech startup ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

The Fund , the early-stage investment firm focused on pre-seed and seed startups, is going Down Under for its latest expansion. The Fund was founded in New York in 2018, before launching in Los Angeles , London, the Rockies and the Midwest, too.

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Founders Coop

AUGUST 7, 2018

It’s incredible to look back at how far our startup ecosystem has come in that time. With three tech IPOs in 2018 alone, our market is adding new anchor tenants at an accelerating rate. Seattle in 2013 was a different place.

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HPA

JULY 18, 2019

The unicorns in Michigan demonstrate a fertile startup ecosystem with unlimited opportunities. A couple weeks ago, StockX became the state’s newest in a quickly-growing cohort of unicorns, which includes two other startups that also earned the elite status this year.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 28, 2022

Register Philippine-based B2B E-commerce startup GrowSari has completed a raise of $77.5 From a base of 1,000 sari-sari stores in three cities back in 2018, Growsari has grown to service more than 100,000 stores in over 220 municipalities across Luzon. Growsari plans to leverage funding to accelerate its national expansion.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Despite the pandemic’s economic impact, Southeast Asia’s startup ecosystem has proven to be very resilient. Southeast Asia’s startup ecosystem was not immune, and had less exits, but it still did relatively well, with $8.2 billion invested in 2020, according to a report by Cento Ventures and Tech In Asia.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Much of this can trickle down into the startup ecosystem. TechCrunch’s Kate Clark has done a round-up of the largest “private VC” rounds of 2018, and there’s a whole other list for just $100M+ financings led by Softbank’s Vision Fund. Money has been coming into the U.S.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

tech startup scene. Tech City UK, its predecessor, was launched in 2011 by former prime minister David Cameron and concentrated largely on the London ecosystem until 2018 when it merged with Tech North (based in Manchester). s tech startup ecosystem. Tech Nation has long been embedded in the U.K. and abroad.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Ann Arbor continues to be one of the top growing tech ecosystems around the country with some of the best startups to watch. Founded in 2018 (and formerly known as Flugauto), Blueflite is a last-mile logistics startup that offers drone delivery services. After raising $10.3

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

We live in a world with a stereotypical representation of what a startup founder looks like, so it’s no wonder that a large portion of the population feels underrepresented. A Gender Gap Grader study shows that women represent 9 percent of developers in the startup ecosystem. Myth 4: Startup founders are white.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – (February 7, 2023) Keiretsu Forum, a global network of angel investors, is exploring an expansion into the Texas startup ecosystem. Of note, Keiretsu Forum deal counts in 2022 remained well above 2018 and 2019 (pre-pandemic) levels. This could bring new investors, funds, and deal flow to the region.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 2, 2022

In the fourth industrial revolution era, having succeeded as an economic powerhouse with a technological edge in manufacturing and industries led by large corporations, South Korea is now fostering disruptive innovation through startups. The country strives to create a balance between industrial conglomerates and the startup ecosystem.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 25, 2019

“Tel Aviv is the city with the highest number of startups per capita in the world, according to the 2018 Global Startup Ecosystem report — more than 6,000, of which 18 are unicorns.” Did you know?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Israel’s startup ecosystem raised record amounts of funding and produced 19 IPOs in 2020, despite the pandemic. Jumpspeed invests exclusively in pre-seed and seed-stage startups from the Jerusalem startup ecosystem. Are there startups that you wish you would see in the industry but don’t?

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 4, 2020

Much has changed in the world since we announced our last early stage fund in 2018, especially in the last several months, as so much of our day-to-day lives have been reshaped by the coronavirus pandemic. We’re both excited and grateful to have the opportunity to continue to partner with early stage entrepreneurs.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 4, 2020

Much has changed in the world since we announced our last early stage fund in 2018, especially in the last several months, as so much of our day-to-day lives have been reshaped by the coronavirus pandemic. We’re both excited and grateful to have the opportunity to continue to partner with early stage entrepreneurs.

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

Founded in 2018 by Michael Healander, Daniel Bradshaw and Ana Healander, the Detroit-based startup employs 20 full-time staff. ” 5 VCs on the future of Michigan’s startup ecosystem. The company is one of seven FAA-approved companies to provide this service.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2021

Existing backers ATX Ventures, Integr8d Capital, Stage 2 Capital and HubSpot Ventures also participated in the financing, which brings the startup’s total funding to $26.3 million since its 2018 inception. The funding comes amid a year of growth for the startup, which has dual headquarters in Austin and Philadelphia.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Register Scaling platform for growth-stage startups xto10x Technologies has raised US$25 million in its Series A financing round led by Flipkart’s co-founder Binny Bansal. The round also saw participation from 28 founders and senior leaders from the startup ecosystem in India and Southeast Asia.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

In late 2018, the company raised $75 million Series C from Sequoia, arguably the top VC firm in the world. I’m pissed off that the startup ecosystem is supposed to be founder-friendly, supportive of trying really hard things, there for you even if they don’t work out as planned, but that this courtesy gets applied completely unevenly.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Enter Onboard , a 10-month-old startup that aims to help SaaS businesses delight those new customers instead of turning them off. The company was co-founded by CEO Jeff Epstein, who previously launched the referral marketing and affiliate marketing software company Ambassador, which sold in 2018, eight years after it was founded.

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