TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

Deena Shakir is a partner at Lux Capital, where she looks to invest in technologies that are streamlining analog industries while also improving lives and livelihoods. Then, in 2019, she was poached by Lux. Lux Capital’s Deena Shakir sees space and frontier tech going mainstream right now. Secure your seat today.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

Dayna Grayson has been in venture capital for more than a decade and was one of the first VCs to build a portfolio around the transformation of industrial sectors of our economy. It should come as no surprise, then, that we’re absolutely thrilled to have Grayson join us at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 in September.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2021

Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital led the round, marking the first time the New York-based venture firm has led an investment in a Brazilian startup. Pipo, she said, was created to “disrupt this landscape” with the use of technology and data. Although, notably, Thrive has also put money in Nubank and Loft.). Pipo Saude raises $4.6

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Today, Volpe Capital announced the $80 million first close of its fund targeting high growth technology investments in Latin America. He launched Volpe in 2019 primarily with SoftBank’s backing. We are happy with our first deal and will take capital preservation in consideration. They’re also investing in funds.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

Alexa von Tobel, co-founder and managing partner of Inspired Capital, will be joining TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 taking place September 21-23 to help judge the startups competing in Startup Battlefield. After raising $75 million in venture capital and growing the service to 1.5 that highlights entrepreneurs.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 20, 2020

5000 list for 2019, Greg’s firm merged with Carr, Riggs & Ingram CPAs and Advisors , a top 25 U.S. By taking the traditional balance sheet and turning it into the Simple Numbers Capital format, you will better understand what parts of your balance sheet impact your cash flow. After being named to the Inc.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

million in seed funding from Sequoia Capital India. The new capital will be used for tech development and hiring, and brings Outplay’s total raised so far to $9.3 Its previous funding was a $2 million raise from Sequoia Capital India’s Surge announced in March after Outplay took part in the program’s fourth cohort.

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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. Venture capital investment in Africa predicted to reach a record high this year.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

That’s Lumchain’s goal: help the global meat industry innovate and solve some of the key challenges they face, including employee shortages, the impact of inflation and high operational costs, supply chain disruptions and that meat plants are still operating the same way they did 50 years ago. Its global team is over 100 now.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

When you’re building a startup and thinking about what it’s going to take to raise your first dollars in a slowing capital market , perspective can be very helpful. TechCrunch Disrupt is back in person on October 18-20 in San Francisco. In this case perspective, like any story worth telling, has two sides — founder and venture.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The venture capital scene in Africa has consistently grown, with an influx of capital from local and international investors reaching unprecedented heights in recent years. Did African startups raise $496M, $1B or $2B in 2019? billion while Disrupt Africa, $496 million for the same year. billion in 2019.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 4, 2021

In June of 2019, I got a cold e-mail with a single link: “My name is Braeden Kelekona and I’m the founder of Kelekona, a drone service for passengers and cargo. He didn’t write back to me until I wrote this piece on backing disruption in the middle of the racial equity protests last June. “As Below is a link to the pitch video.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2021

Existing investors, including Lightspeed India and Sequoia Capital India, also participated in the round, which brings the five-year-old startup’s raise to-date to about $35 million. Overall, the startup’s revenue has ballooned by 300% since September 2019, when it last raised money , he said.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Fund II will explore options to raise additional capital,” SoftBank said in a statement. The new fund builds upon SoftBank’s $5 billion Latin America Fund, which was first announced in March 2019 and was formerly called the Innovation Fund with an initial $2 billion in committed capital. billion as of June 30.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

African payments company Interswitch has secured a $110 million joint investment from LeapFrog Investments and Tana Africa Capital to scale its digital payment services across the continent , the two private investment firms said in a statement Wednesday. An Interswitch exit is a win for the African tech ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

Vise today announced a $65 million Series C financing round led by Ribbit Capital, with participation from existing investors, including Sequoia. The startup launched on the Disrupt Startup Battlefield stage in 2019 and has since raised upwards of $125 million.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Venture capital continues to flow into Latin America at a staggering rate. That was three times more than the association recorded in fiscal year 2019. H Twenty Capital (H20) co-founders Daniel Lloreda and Mauricio Porras recall getting into the region in 2018, a time Lloreda considered pretty early to be the investment space.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

million of Series A investment, led by Integrated Capital, to continue developing its line of healthier food brands. Joining Integrated Capital in the round are Great Oaks Venture Capital, Pacific Tiger Group, Sope Creek Capital and Clearco. Food and beverage startup The Naked Market bagged $27.5

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

The round was led by TIP, an innovation fund within the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board that focuses on late-stage venture and growth equity investments in companies that deliver disruptive technology. The new funds will primarily be used for research and development, according to the company.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

According to Mohamed Emera, the company’s director of growth, ILLA is targeting the FMCG logistics head-on, which speaks to the company’s focus on disrupting the market in Egypt. Image Credits: ILLA. The bigger picture is global, where fragmentation in supply chain is a $1 trillion market. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

The idea for a syndicate fund would come in the following months as the pandemic disrupted investment activities worldwide. In the past year, syndicates have been emerging as a key force for investing — and for startups seeking capital to get going — on the continent. Here’s what he means.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

When there’s a need for capital, not every startup goes the venture route. Boast.ai , a company that plugs into business systems and automatically finds them R&D tax breaks, announced Wednesday it has raised a $100 million credit facility from Brevet Capital to advance those R&D incentives.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Metromile said it was able to raise $160 million in private investment in public equity, or PIPE, in an investment round led by Chamath Palihapitiya’s firm Social Capital. Existing investors Hudson Structured Capital Management and Mark Cuban, as well as new backers Miller Value and Clearbridge participated. I pick @Metromile.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Since first announcing it was planting a stake in the ground in the region in early 2019, the Japanese conglomerate has plugged more than $5 billion into the region, and it expects that number to top $8 billion by year’s end. Its capital contributions are meaningful to say the least. billion in funding, according to CB Insights.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

When combined with the electronic signature capability of HelloSign, which Dropbox acquired in 2019 , the acquisition gives the company an end-to-end document sharing workflow it had been missing. Meanwhile, DocSend participated in 2014 at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York City. PandaDoc is another competitor in this space.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

seed and they are writing $1.25m of it you can expect them to require a board seat) The competitive landscape (If you have several sources of capital you can likely politely decline the board request or can grant them a seat but ask for it to be “common appointed” and those revokable if you need in the future). But it’s quite rare.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The startup — which counts SoftBank, Airbnb, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital India and Microsoft among its investors and was most recently valued at $9.6 Much like every other hospitality and travel firm, Oyo was also severely disrupted by the pandemic. The startup plans to deploy over $330 million to repay its debt.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 8, 2023

in 17 startups since 2019. SDAC angel investors build social capital as they work together to discover investable companies with the potential to disrupt industries and solve real-world challenges. Accredited investors are invited to nation’s largest angel conference, which has invested $4.8M

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Regarding Airbnb’s worth, investors will have to balance how they value recovery and recent profits over the company’s disrupted historical growth arc. What changed from the first three quarters of 2019 to the first three quarters of 2020? billion in the first three quarters of 2019 to just $545.5

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

’s Seraphim Capital , the country’s only space tech accelerator, has released details of its newest cohort as part of its Space Camp programme, timed with the end of World Space Week last week. Raised so far: Undisclosed amount / seed, 1 December 2019. ” Starfish Space. ” Vector Photonics.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

UBITS, a B2B online learning platform for upskilling employees in Latin America, has raised $25 million in funding led by Riverwood Capital. They applied to Y Combinator, raised a seed round and went back to Colombia to create a program and courses that launched in January 2019. “In

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

The round was led by AppWorks Ventures, with participation from strategic investor MUFG Innovation Partners (MUIP), a venture capital firm for collaborations between startups and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. Tinvio’s last funding announcement was a $5.5 million seed round in April 2020. million seed round.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

However, few investors can directly impact the value of the underlying asset, except for private equity and venture capital investors with portfolio acceleration strategies. In contrast, entrepreneurs in most other fields risk a more significant portion of their own capital in their new venture , better aligning incentives.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

The funding round is led by global banks HSBC and ING, with participation from Sony Innovation Fund by IGV*, SBI Investment, OCS, Global Brain and DG Daiwa Ventures along with existing investors DN Capital, Dawn Capital, IQ Capital and Amex Ventures. with a goal of launching in 10 more countries by the end of 2019.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

billion in 2019 to up to $26.16 Ursa Major is planning on using the new capital to scale up its manufacturing operations and to begin development on additional engines. A lot of a lot of what we’re trying to bring to market is that next step,” Laurienti explained. “We billion by 2027.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Existing backers also participated in the round, including Foundation Capital and Mountain Nazca. Ricardo Weder , former president of Cabify (a large ridesharing company operating in Latin America, Spain and Portugal) founded Jüsto in 2019 with a mission to “disrupt the Latin American grocery industry.”

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