TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

Today we’re wrapping our multi-week exploration of the global venture capital market’s second-quarter performance. At a glance, the Latin American venture capital and startup market appears similar to what we’ve seen from other growing ecosystems. A venture capital wave. But we’ve saved the best for last: Latin America.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

We believe this consistency in leadership and intuition for where the markets were going in the heady days of 2019–2021 helped us to stay sane in a world that momentarily seemed to have lost its mind and since we have new capital to deploy in the years ahead perhaps I can offer some insights into where we think value will be derived.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

At our mid-year offsite our partnership at Upfront Ventures was discussing what the future of venture capital and the startup ecosystem looked like. Even then private market investors can paper over valuation changes by investing at the same price but with more structure so it’s hard to understand the “headline valuation.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2021

This is one of Salesforce Ventures’ rare investments in Asia. 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. Salesforce Ventures is exploring more investment opportunities in India, he said.

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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. In the U.S.,

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 14, 2025

The investment in these programs aims to empower unconventional thinkersstudents who may not have thrived in traditional academic environments but possess the creative drive to tackle real-world challenges. million, the total external investment in the program is expected to reach $17.5 With anticipated matching gifts totaling $7.5

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

There are many ways to invest successfully. Public stocks, bonds, private equity, real estate, venture capital, etc. And within each category, there are so many different investment opportunities. In venture capital, there were something like 30,000 companies that raised venture capital in 2019.

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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? Investments did pick up, and from July, VC funding on the continent had a bullish run until December.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 5, 2022

The first two MyEO DealExchange conferences in 2018 and 2019 made a significant impact on the members who attended—including a 7-figure investment in Scott Mesh (EO New York)’s company. Each person gets 90 seconds to share the details of the investment opportunity or the “deal need” they’re presenting or seeking.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Each quarter, a group of analysts, including me, publish analysis on the trends in the venture capital market. This retrospective analysis compares Crunchbase data from April 1, 2020 to data from October 10, 2020 across three dimensions: round counts, investment total, and median round size. Last is median investment size.

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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

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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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

AUGUST 17, 2022

Multi-asset social investment network and Robinhood competitor eToro has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Gatsby — a fintech startup which also aimed to go head to head against Robinhood — for $50 million in a cash and common stock deal. million at the end of 2019, 17.5 E Toro has grown impressively in recent years.

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Dream It

APRIL 26, 2019

Cybersecurity Venture Funding News Deepwatch, which provides managed security services, closed a $23 million Series A led by ABS Capital Partners. Sequoia Capital led the round. Mangrove Capital Partners led a $6 million investment in security operations center services provider CyberHat.

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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. billion in follow-on capital raised.

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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…. 6/ Venture Capital In Expansion Phase. More and more angels will be minted as the 2019 IPO class emerges. The fear of them investing in a competitor is real.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2020

When I started leading deals at First Round Capital, I sourced investments in 8 companies. I have now been investing on my own at Brooklyn Bridge Ventures for almost eight years exactly—which is pretty much about the time people say it takes to build up a company to a big exit. I’m just sharing. You cannot die today.

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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. Qolab, Inc., Martinis is a renowned physicist and one of the worlds foremost experts in superconducting qubits.

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Dream It

DECEMBER 19, 2019

NeuroFlow ( Healthtech - Fall 2019 ) is a platform for getting patients with behavioral health issues better by supporting clinical teams with collaborative and measurement-based tools in all care settings. Also participating in the round are Dreamit Ventures , Spring Point Partners, Red & Blue Ventures, and AWT Private Investments.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

AMP Robotics , a Denver, Colorado-based startup creating robotic systems that can automatically sort recyclable material, today announced that it extended its Series C round to $99 million, thanks to an investment from Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund. billion in 2019, per the Department of Energy (DoE). The recovery of U.S.

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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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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

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The latest funding will also enable CloudEats to develop its brands, grow its team and double down on investment in the shared kitchen technology. . Along with its previous round of $5 million, the latest capital brings its total funding to $14 million. . “As CloudEats says it has served more than 2.5 million orders.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

I have had the great pleasure of working with Matt Blumberg and the senior leadership team of USV’s former portfolio company Return Path (which was sold in 2019) for much of the last twenty years. Bolster also will allow venture capital firms and startup investors to participate in its platform as super users.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

The company, which has built a payment platform intended for gaming platforms, virtual world publishers, mobile application developers and NFT providers, said Tuesday it has secured another strategic investment from its returning backer, J.P Morgan Payments, and new investor Dunamu , a Seoul-based operator of crypto exchange Upbit.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Growth Partners with participation from Active Capital and other unnamed investors. 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.”

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Revolution

OCTOBER 6, 2020

In 2019, according to Crunchbase data , $2.3 billion was invested across 347 deals in the state?—?and link] Our Investment in Good Buy Gear was originally published in Revolution on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. and 2020 is trending higher.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

This undisclosed investment is Google’s third from the $50 million Africa Investment Fund targeted at the continent’s early- and growth-stage startups, which the company CEO Sundar Pichai announced last October. The fund is part of Google’s plan to invest $1 billion in “tech-led initiatives” over the next five years.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

After a blockbuster year for venture capital funding in 2021, the flow of capital to Indian startups seemed like it would buck global trends in early 2022, but dried up in the second half of 2022. For Ashutosh Sharma, head of India investments at Prosus Ventures, it is paramount for startups to ensure their existence at this time.

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TechCrunch

JULY 31, 2022

A few examples… When asked in February what differences in the landscape he saw in 2021 and if deals were much more competitive, Accel partner Ethan Choi responded: “On the investing side, deals were definitely more competitive and valuations certainly reflect that, even despite a correction in public fintech comps.”.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

DECEMBER 18, 2019

After selling La Escombrera to competitors in 2019, the company continues to reform construction in Argentina. To combat this, Surcos Argentinos taught sustainable farming to impoverished families in villages far from the capital. Marcos Heyd has invested his time and energy into solving problems in Argentina.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

This infusion of capital will enable the company to scale production, expand its product line, and generate new jobs at its world-class production facility in Ottawa, Ohio. In addition, Endera secured a $13 million credit facility.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

MENA-based buy now, pay later startup Tabby has raised $58 million, led by Sequoia Capital India and STV, at a valuation of $660 million. Other investors in Tabby’s new financing round include Mubadala Investment Capital, Arbor Ventures and Endeavor Catalyst. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

New Zealand, a country of just under 5 million people, has historically flown under the radar of venture capitalism. That’s changed so much the last couple of years partly because the government’s been putting more initiatives into attracting international capital. In 2020, VC investments totaled NZD $127.2

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2023

She founded Inspired Capital in 2019 and currently manages the $500 million fund. She invested in Habi’s Series A and followed on its Series B and Series C. How to manage uncertainty with Habi and Inspired Capital on TechCrunch Live by Matt Burns originally published on TechCrunch I hope you can join us.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 15, 2020

I suspect what we will see is a very active venture capital market, quite the opposite of what was initially expected. billion invested across 2,197 deals, a 23% decline in deal count compared to the second quarter of 2019 but only down slightly from 2,298 venture capital deals in the first quarter of this year.

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