TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

When the company filed initial public offering paperwork back in February, it was coming off of an expensive year of growth in 2019. More from Alex Wilhelm : DoorDash has grown incredibly rapidly, scaling its revenues from $291 million in 2018 to $885 million in 2019. Human Capital: The gig economy in a post-Prop 22 world.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The unicorn’s impending liquidity event will enrich a host of venture capital firms that bet on its eventual maturity. But notable in DoorDash’s impressive results is the impact of COVID-19, accelerating secular trends already in place, and boosting the unicorn’s growth. — Alex and Walter. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Inferencing chips accelerate the AI inferencing process, which is where AI systems generate outputs (e.g., ” NeuReality was co-founded in 2019 by Tzvika Shmueli, Yossi Kasus and Tanach, who previously served as a director of engineering at Marvell and Intel. The growing demand for AI, particularly generative AI (i.e.,

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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. Let’s not even mention Andreessen Horowitz’s paltry $2.2 So, what exactly do those action steps look like? Sourcing deals.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 5, 2025

Supergut was founded in 2019 by Marc Washington in memory of his sister with a mission to empower individuals to take charge of their health through the power of the gut microbiome. With this investment, Bader Alam, Founder & Managing Partner of Full Frame Growth Partners, will join Superguts Board of Directors.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

million since its inception in 2019, which includes its $2.1 “Accelerating their growth would require an efficient expense management tool that is simple yet scalable, something that Volopay has always aimed for.” . To date, Volopay has raised approximately $31.4 The executive did not provide Volopay’s valuation. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

2019 saw a stampede of fintech unicorns. 2019 saw a stampede of fintech unicorns. 2019 looks to continue another lights-out year for fintech startups. In 2020, all the long-term trends forcing change in this sector continued and even accelerated. More posts by this contributor. 4-year founder vesting is dead.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 31, 2019

— Steven Kane (@stevenkane) December 26, 2019. 2/ The massive experiment in using capital as a moat to build startups into sustainable businesses has now played out and we can call it a failure for the most part. And so I will. 1/ The emergence of the big four web/mobile monopolies; Apple, Google, Amazon, and Facebook.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

Since 2019, Apeel has prevented 42 million pieces of fruit from going to waste at retail locations; that includes up to 50% reduction in avocado food waste with corresponding sales growth. Grocery stores are looking at the way shoppers want to buy things, while we look at how to partner to empower the supply chain.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 18, 2025

a pioneering company in quantum computing hardware, has secured a significant investment from Applied Ventures, LLC, the venture capital arm of Applied Materials, Inc. This is a critical step toward accelerating the development of large-scale quantum computing. Qolab, Inc.,

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

With access to new funds, the company plans to accelerate the manufacture of its electric shuttles and school buses, reinforcing its position as the nations only vertically integrated Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) in this space. In addition, Endera secured a $13 million credit facility.

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Dream It

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The startup will use the funding to enhance product capabilities and accelerate sales growth with key hires. In 2019, the technology, which is a secure, real-time workspace for collaborating across care teams, has been implemented at multiple provider locations, expanding beyond major health systems. and Dreamit Ventures.

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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. 2019 saw the local VC firm invest in six companies. Half of its portfolio companies are backed by YC and other global accelerators. million in seed and $15 million Series A investment.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

A Manila-headquartered startup called CloudEats , which operates cloud kitchens across the Philippines and Vietnam, just raised a $7 million Series A extension led by Nordstar to accelerate the digitization of food service in Southeast Asia. . CloudEats says it has served more than 2.5 million orders.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Two years ago, the African tech ecosystem saw newfound attention from global players that translated to the continent’s best year of receiving venture capital. From varying sources, it is estimated up to $2 billion went into African tech startups in 2019. AfricArena, a tech ecosystem accelerator, pegged deals to close between $2.25

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

InstaDeep , a Tunis and London-based enterprise AI startup that creates decision-making systems for solving real-world problems, has raised $100 million in Series B financing led by Alpha Intelligence Capital and CDIB. Karim Beguir (InstaDeep CEO). Advancing its computing infrastructure, expanding into the U.S.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

NerdWallet is pursuing a traditional IPO, meaning that it will raise primary capital in its public debut. ” The rest will go to running and growing the company, or what lawyers like to call “general corporate purposes, including working capital, operating expenses and capital expenditures.” million in 2020.

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

has raised a $7 million round to accelerate its hiring cadence, and built out the go-to-market model for its its engineering and developer-focused hiring service, it recently announced. Filtered later split from the consulting group in 2019, signing a term sheet to raise capital in March of 2020. Boston-based Filtered.ai

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The San Francisco-based startup is announcing today that it has raised $10 million in a Series A funding round co-led by Kapor Capital and KB Investment Inc. The new capital comes just over seven months after TomoCredit raised $7 million in seed funding, and brings its total raised this year to $17 million. Image Credits: TomoCredit.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Bademosi was the Director of Binance Labs in Africa, overseeing the incubation and development of blockchain projects when he decided to start Bundle as CEO in 2019. 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.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

6/ Venture Capital In Expansion Phase. More and more angels will be minted as the 2019 IPO class emerges. Public investors, cross-over investors, and even traditional private equity firms have taken notice, further blurring the lines of what constitutes true venture capital. The fear of them investing in a competitor is real.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Crunchbase examined the access to capital in the venture-backed startup ecosystem and proved that many industry leaders still worry that nothing will drastically shift. In 2019, The New York Times published an article headlined “More Start-Ups Have an Unfamiliar Message for Venture Capitalists: Get Lost.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

When much of the shopping shifted online during the global pandemic, startups developing software and other products to aid the transition began to garner attention from venture capital firms. He exited the company to Lowe’s in 2019. That’s why he believes now is the time to accelerate CommerceIQ. Meanwhile, $1.1

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

Zeni , a Palo Alto fintech company providing real-time financial services data to venture-backed startups, raised $34 million in Series B funding led by Elevation Capital. million in total since it was co-founded in 2019 by twin brothers Swapnil Shinde and Snehal Shinde. Especially with the addition of Elevation Capital as an investor.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Roger Hurwitz is a founding partner at Volition Capital. Should SaaS founders be raising capital now? Gartner recently forecast that SaaS revenue worldwide could surpass $140 billion by 2022, which would represent a 40% increase over 2019’s roughly $100 billion. Roger Hurwitz. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

million in Series A funding to continue to accelerate its AI platform globally and scale up its team in the United States. million seed round in July 2019 to give it $22 million in total funding to date. “We It is working in eight countries today and its technology is capturing just under 50% of the meat supply in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Italy’s ecosystem for tech venture capital and startups has been in development for years and has made decent strides in the last decade. Rome has more than 20 incubators/accelerators and many established VCs; because of its lower costs compared to other European cities, it’s become a major base for startups.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic disproportionately reduced venture capital funding for female founders last year, despite a greater boom in fundraising thanks to megafunds and the advent of Zoom investing. The result was an uneven landscape in which capital flowed more toward men than was normal historically. The headline number of $40.04

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2023

Venture capital funding to the cultivated meat industry has largely followed other industries in fewer investments made this year; however, there’s still movement in this sector yet. TechCrunch has followed Meatable since it picked up $10 million in funding back in 2019. Then in the next 18 to 24 months start building that large scale.”

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 11, 2023

billion in follow-on capital raised. First, Cheque@Jungle takes a pioneering approach to early-stage investments with a unique capital allocation structure, ensuring that startups can access appropriately sized funding while minimizing early-stage equity dilution. Over the years, it has consistently grown in size and impact.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

Catalyst Fund , a global accelerator managed by BFA Global , announced the 8th cohort for its Inclusive Fintech Program today. The accelerator, backed by the JP Morgan Chase and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, runs the flagship program annually. In 2020, all five countries had representatives in the accelerator.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Aurora Innovation, the autonomous vehicle startup backed by Sequoia Capital and Amazon, has reached an agreement with Uber to buy the ride-hailing firm’s self-driving unit in a complex deal that will value the combined company at $10 billion. “If anything, this accelerates our objectives,” he said.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

While finance and media are typically concentrated in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, a city of three million in the state of Bahia, is considered one of Brazil’s cultural capitals. As with counterparts in the United States, Brazil’s Black founders have less access to capital. Like counterparts in the U.S.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 31, 2023

Through a joint announcement, the entities unveiled their intention to combine conventional bank credit with venture capital investment, all while ensuring minimal equity dilution for shareholders. This initiative will primarily focus on startups in the series B and series C funding stages.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

I spoke with Sopoong chief executive Max Sang-Yeop Han , a serial entrepreneur who joined Sopoong in 2016 and acquired the firm in 2019, to learn about the VC’s plans. The early-stage VC had already set up five social impact funds and backed 81 startups since 2020, after Han acquired the firm in December 2019.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

Zooming in somewhat, here’s Airbnb spend data from July 2020 through the end of October, the first month of Q4, compared to the same period of 2019: Declines, then, but still an encouraging set of data for the company regardless. Chalk this result up to the accelerating digital transformation being real, which is good news for startups.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

According to data from KPMG , Brazilian startups raised the most capital in a single quarter in Q1 2021, when some $1.4 More recently, the number of technology companies listed in the country has swelled to at least 16 , up from just four in 2019. billion flowed into domestic technology upstarts. billion raised by Brazilian startups.

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