Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 12, 2019

In fact, the work he does outside of his original business helped him earn the 2019 EO Global Citizen of the Year. The EO Accelerator program is the catalyst that enables first-stage entrepreneurs to catapult their business to the next level. Are you a founder or start-up owner who is ready to advance to the next stage of growth?

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Register Committed to accelerate the digital transformation of the world’s fourth largest population, Privy has partnered with KKR , a leading global investment firm. Privy, a digital trust provider, said new investments will further strengthen its position as the leading digital signature and digital identity provider in Indonesia.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 5, 2025

Supergut, a trailblazer in gut health and GLP-1 nutrition, has announced the successful closure of a major minority growth investment. 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.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

When Female Invest launched in 2019, it did so with the goal of creating a community where women who wanted to invest in the stock market, but weren’t sure where to start, could gain the knowledge and confidence to take the plunge. Now, its users will be able to do so all within the Female Invest platform.

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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. Then the pandemic hit. billion in the same period of 2020.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Inferencing chips accelerate the AI inferencing process, which is where AI systems generate outputs (e.g., “Most companies that can leverage AI don’t have the funds nor the huge R&D that Amazon, Meta and other huge companies investing in AI have. . The growing demand for AI, particularly generative AI (i.e.,

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Paul G. Silva

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

I spent the last 3 months of 2019 conducting intensive customer discovery, interviewing RVI’s top members, past and present. We’re investing in more deals than we’ve ever invested in before. If RVI failed then our region would have lots its only active angel group – a huge potential blow to local startups.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Jake Jolis is a partner at Matrix Partners and invests in seed and Series A technology companies including marketplaces and software. 2019 saw a stampede of fintech unicorns. Dana Stalder is a partner at Matrix Partners, where he invests predominantly in fintech, consumer marketplaces and enterprise software. Dana Stalder.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Daimler’s trucks division has invested in lidar developer Luminar as part of a broader partnership to produce autonomous trucks capable of navigating highways without a human driver behind the wheel. Luminar will become a publicly traded company through its merger with Gores, which is expected to close in late 2020.

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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.

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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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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Register Singapore’s Jungle Ventures has announced the launch of First Cheque@Jungle , a new program aimed at investing in startups during their pre-seed and seed stages. Second, the program offers an initial investment without imposing minimum ownership criteria. Over the years, it has consistently grown in size and impact.

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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. It also invested with Temasek in Impossible Foods, leading its Series F round last year. (where approximately 40% of food is wasted ), the U.K.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

Thomas Rush is founder of Bootstrapp and Head of Investment Platform at ConsenSys Mesh. Revenue-based investing ( RBI), also known as revenue-based financing, or revenue-share investing, 1 is a natural next step for the private equity and early-stage venture investment industry. Share on Twitter.

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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 4, 2021

ShareChat, an Indian social network that added Twitter as an investor in 2019 , may soon receive the backing of two more American firms. The terms of the deal could change and the talks may not materialize into an investment, the sources cautioned. Days later, the company invested $4.5 Days later, the company invested $4.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Founded by Yele Badamosi in 2017, Microtraction arrived on the continent’s early-stage investment scene with all intent to be “the most accessible and preferred source of pre-seed funding for African tech entrepreneurs.” Other investors include Pave Investments and US-based angel investor, Chris Schultz.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 31, 2023

Register Vuihoc , an ed-tech platform catering to K-12 Vietnamese students, recently secured a significant US$6 million investment in a Series A funding round led by TNB Aura. Amidst the fluctuations in the world economy, Vietnam’s EdTech sector remains an attractive destination for solid investments.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

This is the New York-headquartered firm’s first investment in Pakistan. This is also Firstminute Capital’s first investment in the South Asian market. This is also Firstminute Capital’s first investment in the South Asian market. “We The investment is a testament to the incredible traction and vision demonstrated by the team.”.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

From 2003-2022 the River Valley Investors operated as a traditional angel group, investing in nearly 100 startups. For posterity, here are some of the more recent investments… 2022 Hubly Surgical Hubly Surgical has an advanced drill, complete with auto-stop and visual feedback, to make medical drilling safe across underserved settings.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2025

Founded in 2017 by former Wall Street traders Michael Intrator, Brian Venturo, and Brannin McBee, CoreWeave began as a cryptocurrency mining operation before pivoting in 2019 to become a specialized provider of GPU-based cloud infrastructure for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. The company raised $1.5

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500

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Under no circumstances should any of the below content be construed as legal, tax or investment advice from 500 Startups or any of its affiliates. Alluva at 500 Startups: What it was really like being a part of Batch 25 In March of 2019, Alluva was accepted into Batch 25 of 500 Startups.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

The report, which included analysis from McKinsey & Company, says its assertions are backed by an acceleration in strong market fundamentals and the impact of the pandemic. from 2010 to 2019. million jobs due to Google’s $1 billion investment in the continent. The continent’s investment story.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Since its launch in 2019, some of YouTube’s biggest creators like MrBeast and Like Nastya have struck deals with Spotter. Jellysmack’s licensing of back catalog expires after five years, the same length of Spotter’s contracts, and uses an algorithm to determine whether or not to invest in a creator.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The fund, which has offices in New York as well as Boston, invests in consumer and software-as-a-service enterprise startups at the pre-seed and seed stage. Its portfolio includes Ellevest , an investing platform for women; Grove Collaborative , a sustainable goods subscription platform; and ThredUp, which has confidentially filed for IPO.

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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.” Growth Partners with participation from Active Capital and other unnamed investors. a few months).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

” The NerdWallet IPO is a liquidity event for several investing groups, including Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), which owns 17.5% million in revenues in 2019, a figure that rose only modestly to $245.3 of Class A stock ahead of the company’s public offering, RRE Ventures (6.5% NerdWallet generated $228.3

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

From varying sources, it is estimated up to $2 billion went into African tech startups in 2019. But two months into 2020, the pandemic did an excellent job of lowering expectations as investment activities from local and international investors slowed down. AfricArena, a tech ecosystem accelerator, pegged deals to close between $2.25

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Nestcoin , a company founded last November that builds, operates, and invests in web3 applications, wants to be pivotal in this transition and has raised $6.45 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.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

And, with that warning, I offer to you, the big stories in the startup and investing ecosystem of 2018, written in ascending order of importance and magnitude…. More and more angels will be minted as the 2019 IPO class emerges. The fear of them investing in a competitor is real. 6/ Venture Capital In Expansion Phase.

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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 17, 2020

Indeed, the Italian Ministry of Economic Development and the Italian Trade & Investment Agency in London have even been known to fund Italian entrepreneurs abroad to help them gain more experience. Milan tends to attract the lion’s share of VC funding — in 2019, startups located there received €311 million, according to NGP Capital.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

He focuses primarily on investments in software and technology-enabled business services. 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. More posts by this contributor.

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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.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2020

billion following a $1 billion investment last year from Toyota, DENSO and SoftBank’s Vision Fund. Instead, Uber is handing over its equity in ATG and investing $400 million into Aurora, which will give it a 26% stake in the combined company, according to a filing with the U.S. Urmson thinks differently.

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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. billion across 2,661 deals through the first three quarters of 2021, almost doubling 2019’s total of $23.7 The headline number of $40.04

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Goalsetter launched in 2019 out of the Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator. It’s another thing to teach kids the core concepts about how to build wealth, or to know the difference between putting your money into an investment account, or putting your money into a CD versus a mutual fund versus a savings account.

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