AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

” In 2018, Crossworks Myanmar was born, initially intended to hire talent for Jeshua’s ventures. Jeshua’s Fundraising Strategies for Founders: Consider whether venture capital funding is essential; not all businesses need it.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The company recently secured funding in a Series A round, which was led by TRIVE Venture Capital , a Singapore-based firm specializing in early-stage high-growth technology companies. Since its establishment in 2018, Charge+ already has over 1,000 strategically distributed EV charging points in the city-state.

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Source Link

APRIL 14, 2021

In 2018, women started 1,821 net new businesses every day according to research by American Express, which also showed that black women are starting businesses at the fastest rate of any racial group. Despite the growth in women-owned businesses, venture capital is still funneled to mostly male-owned businesses.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

Photo by Scott Clark for Upfront Ventures Focus on Cash While the headlines in 2020 & 2021 touted many massive fundraising events and heady valuations, we believed that for savvy investors it also represented an opportunity for real financial gains. In short, In Venture Capital, Size Matters Size matters for a few reasons.

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Hunter Walk

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Watching the boom/bust cycle of DTC brands that were running on just the sugar high of venture dollars has given me even more appreciation for those who, yes, require investment capital along the way, but are playing the long game. Sandro Roco: I had the idea for Sanzo in 2018. Here are Five Questions with Sandro.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

I am at once proud of and awed by Jonathan, whose dual-track passion for the future of food and the future of Appalachia has brought him to tears more than once since we first invested in early 2018. Having the opportunity to learn from the founders you back is by far one of the most rewarding parts of being a venture capital investor.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

I think I’m at the expert stage of venture capital and I mean in the Wardley sense. What do I know about venture? April 30th, 2018. the more money you give a startup the faster they grow. The longer I do this the more humbled I become. I’m not totally sure.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

Despite a pandemic that sparked a global recession, 2020 was still a record year for venture capital investments into American startups. According to data shared by PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association, investors poured $156.2 venture capital market in 2020 was hot, it was not newly so.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Sometimes that’s venture capital generally (like last year’s conversation with Reid Hoffman ) and sometimes it’s in a space where I’ve invested (like mobility and city innovation with Bird’s Travis VanderZanden , one of our portfolio founders.) Between the heavy hitters at the helm, the more than $1.4B

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

Toyota AI Ventures, Toyota’s standalone venture capital fund, has dropped the “AI” and is reborn as, simply, Toyota Ventures. Toyota Ventures has been an invaluable partner for Boxbot since they invested in our seed round in 2018,” said Austin Oehlerking, co-founder and CEO of Boxbot, in a statement.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In 2018, he and Akintola Adesanmi — who was no stranger to how rent worked in Nigeria and also desired to effect change — brainstormed Spleet , a platform that partners with apartment owners to list their properties and offers renters options to pay rent monthly, quarterly and biannually. Nigerian proptech Spleet gets $2.6M

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Between 2010 and 2015, Evernote raised hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital from investors including Sequoia, Meritech Capital and Japanese media company Nikkei. August 2018 saw an exodus of top execs, including Evernote’s chief technical officer, chief financial officer, chief product officer and head of HR.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The startup targeted working professionals in cities, and raised only around $11 million in known venture capital. It sold its assets earlier this year to PB Funding Group — a group of lenders recruited by then-CEO Bill Mitchell in 2018 to keep it afloat. Quibi (2018-2020). Stockwell/Bodega (2018-2020).

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 2, 2023

Register China has announced the extension of favorable taxation policies for venture capital firms and individual angel investors investing in tech startups. By extending these tax incentives, China aims to encourage more venture capital funding and individual investments in the tech startup sector.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2021

MAX started out in 2015 as a delivery startup using motorcycles to fulfil customer orders before venturing into ride-hailing, and later into vehicle subscription and financing services – solutions it came up with based on the data from its first services.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Register Blockchain Founders Fund , an early stage Web3 Venture capital fund based in Singapore , has announced the final close of its Fund II at $75 million. Since the fund’s launch in 2018, BFF has had the privilege to partner with some of the most innovative startups in Web3 landscape and has made significant investments.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Alliance Ventures, the strategic venture capital arm of Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi, became WeRide’s strategic investor in 2018 following the completion of the startup’s Series A round, which was partially funded by the Chinese facial recognition giant SenseTime.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The report , by the not-for-profit community interest company Extend Ventures , looked at how VC has been invested in the U.K. of the venture capital investments made at seed, early and late-stage over this decade. between 2009 and 2019 — providing data on 3,784 entrepreneurs who started 2,002 companies over this period.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

And venture capital is here for it. That has now grown to 8%, said Elaine Russell, Greycroft principal and co-lead of the Albertsons Fund, a $50 million fund started by Greycroft and the grocery chain in 2018 to invest in the future of retail and next-generation retailers.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In 2024, I expect most of these figures to revert to the mean - not the peaks of 2020-2021, but more akin to 2018. The public valuation environment & pace of venture capital investments mirror those years better than others. In almost every category, the time between rounds is also at decade highs.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Linda Greub Contributor Share on Twitter Linda Greub is the co-founder and managing partner of Avestria Ventures. When most people think of venture capitalists, they often think of investors, the people writing checks to fund startups. But that image is only one part of venture capital.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

trillion in sales by 2024 , up from an estimated $680 billion in 2018, according to payments research firm iBe TSD. As a venture capital investor in B2B e-commerce companies, I’m carefully watching the industry and have seen several forward-thinking business models emerge for B2B marketplaces.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Regions once overlooked by the venture capital industry are racking up impressive investment totals in recent quarters. This is also reflected in funding tallies: Per Crunchbase data , venture capital funding into the region’s unicorns reached $10 billion this year to date. VTEX, dLocal) and in Brazil.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

The venture capital boom of 2021 was not built from merely traditional VC money. A host of other capital sources played a role in the global trend , from new methods of disbursing angel and seed capital to crossover funds pouring into late-stage startups. How quickly is corporate venture capital investment accelerating?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

When Christopher Male’s son was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in 2018, the long-time investor found himself in unfamiliar territory. “At The fund’s mission is to “revolutionize the status quo for diagnosing treating and living with autism through a venture-capital model.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

is the latest startup to grab some venture capital dollars as the travel industry gets back on its feet amid the global pandemic. Since 2018, CEO Bortnikova said that YouTravel.Me YouTravel.Me million to bring spontaneous travel back to a hard-hit industry and Wanderlog bag $1.5 million for its free travel itinerary platform.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

Dorm Room Fund is an American venture capital firm run by students that invests in student founders in the US and Canada using a $20,000 SAFE. Front Row Ventures “is a Canada-based, university-focused venture capital firm operating on more than 20 campuses in Canada. The firm has made 326 investments since 2012.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

More from Alex Wilhelm : DoorDash has grown incredibly rapidly, scaling its revenues from $291 million in 2018 to $885 million in 2019. What I wish I’d known about venture capital when I was a founder. From Alex : Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast ( now on Twitter!

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Venture capital price discipline is out the window ; venture funds are looking to make faster, earlier deals; and more unicorns were minted in the last three months than during any quarter in history. Now weeks into July, it’s increasingly clear that 2021 is shaping up to be a record-setter for venture capital investment.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 26, 2023

ConfortDelGro’s investment in Shift4Good was made through its $100 million venture capital fund, which closed in 2018. This is yet another important step in our future-proofing plans,” said Cheng Siak Kian, ComfortDelGro’s managing director and group CEO.

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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. Earlier today, South Korean e-commerce and delivery giant Coupang filed to go public in the United States. billion (+43.7%). billion (+68.8%). billion (+54.8%).

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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’s maiden fund of $20 million, launched in 2018, has had Jungle Ventures as a limited partner.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Register Soho.com.au , an AI-powered real estate discovery app, has secured a $750,000 equity investment from Singapore-based proptech venture capital firm Feedback Ventures. Established in 2018, Soho.com.au This funding round has propelled the valuation of Soho.com.au to over $20 million.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Archer was co-founded in 2018 by Adam Goldstein and Brett Adcock, who sold their software-as-a-service company Vettery to The Adecco Group for more than $100 million. SoftBank earnings always give key insights about how a heavyweight in venture capital is performing (and the bonanza always comes with a healthy share of content and memes).

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 1, 2023

“Manafa is planning to launch a new set of products that tackles the quick access to financing and capital, and empowers small and medium enterprises to fuel their growth,” said Abdulaziz Al Adwani, founder and chief executive of Manafa Capital. Manafa was founded in 2018 by Abdulaziz Al-Adwan and Arm Murad.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Austin’s venture capital scene has been hot for years now, but a pair of local investment firms just closed on new funds aimed at injecting more capital into startups in Austin and elsewhere. Findley met Thiel when she started looking at venture-backed companies and figuring out the players in the space.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Before Jay-Z (Shawn Carter) co-founded Marcy Ventures in 2018, he was involved with other businesses such as the legacy entertainment company Roc Nation and champagne brand Armand de Brignac. With time, Mr Eazi acknowledges that he’ll go all out to raise a fund and invest more extensive checks, just like his mentor, Jay-Z, did in 2018.

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