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. Nigeria’s Interswitch confirms $1B valuation after Visa investment.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 30, 2018

My predictions for 2019. Ok, let’s move on…for 2019’s prediction, I tried to keep it simple and cook up big questions that are on most peoples’ minds, and offer my two cents on them. As to 2019…here are the big FAQs out there: When will companies start going public? Not in 2019. I predict: soon!

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

On the Business Beat, Jeff talks about an influx of venture capital funding into businesses run by women. We’re talking about the venture capital community, the critical source of funding that fuels America’s and the world’s startups with that much needed funding. for the WJR Business Beat. Why the positive change?

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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

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

I’ve heard a lot of people question whether there is too much money in venture capital chasing too few great deals. Others believe that new business models are emerging that could replace venture capital all together. We’re in a new tech bubble!” some have pronounced. Valuations are out of control” is the mantra of others.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2021

Four months after leading a $30 million growth round in Bibit , Sequoia Capital India has doubled down on its investment in the Indonesian robo-advisor app. This brings Bibit’s total funding to $110 million, including a Series A announced in May 2019. Others include SoftBank Ventures-backed Ajaib, Bareksa, Pluang and FUNDtastic.

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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

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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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

It was back in 2019 that we reported on Visionaries Club , a new, Berlin-based, European VC focusing on B2B, founded by Sebastian Pollok and Robert Lacher. Berlin’s Visionaries Club VC boosts its funds with €400M worth of fresh capital for B2B investments by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch. 1 Media Group.

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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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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. I can’t thank them enough for helping ensure our region continues to have a source of high-risk capital for startups!

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StartupNation

MAY 26, 2021

On today’s Business Beat, Jeff talks about how Michigan leads the nation in the biggest increase in venture capital investing and how venture capital is furthering innovation in our state. Venture capital is the type of capital used to invest in companies, startup companies, and fuel their growth.

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

Jakarta-based investment app Pluang announced that it has raised $55 million led by Accel. Pluang’s last round of funding was a $3 million Series A in 2019. . Pluang’s last round of funding was a $3 million Series A in 2019. . The app is also launching a new features that will users to invest in fractional U.S.

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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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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

Venture capitalists are chatting this week about a recent piece from The Information titled “ The End of Venture Capital as We Know It.” A capital explosion. Higher-than-average investment risk meant that returns from winning bets had to be very lucrative, or else the venture model would have failed.

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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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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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Haystack

DECEMBER 17, 2019

And with that, I present to you The Breakout Tech Company Of 2019: Superhuman. 1/ Prosumer Is The New Consumer: This trend gained momentum in 2018, but reached warp speed in 2019. 4/ Competitive Financings: As is the case with most breakouts, there was a competitive financing for the company in 2019, ultimately led by a16z.

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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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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

million in a Series A round led by Silicon Valley VC firm Ribbit Capital. Kaszek Ventures, QED Investors and Greenoaks Capital also participated in the financing, which brings the startup’s total raised to $36.7 million since its 2019 inception.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

“Investors are pouring money into Latin America’s logistics and shipping businesses,” our former colleague Jon Shieber wrote in 2019. In February 2019, the Mexican startup was just graduating from Y Combinator, and in Shieber’s words, “sett[ing] itself up to be the Flexport of Latin America.”

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Revolution

MAY 21, 2019

At the end of each tour day, we hosted a pitch competition where a local startup received a $100,000 investment from Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund. When a business concept can thrive in an area that is not capital rich, it’s likely that this is a resilient idea, driven by resilient people. Yes, absolutely.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

VC has been invested over the past decade according to race, gender and educational background makes for grim reading — with all-ethnic teams and female entrepreneurs receiving just a fraction of available funding versus all-white teams and male founders. New research looking into how U.K. population.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 13, 2019

My answer was: it’s become incredibly sophisticated along three dimensions: diversity of product offering, pricing sophistication, and efficiency of investment processes. If you read eBoys or Done Deals or Creative Capital, you’ll get a sense of the early days of the venture industry. That was the “industry.”

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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. million donation-based fund intended to grow to $15 million to invest in “underserved” founders.

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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. Funders across these three rounds include Access Industries, HighPost Capital, CoVenture, GPS Partners and Crossbeam Venture Partners. ” Spotter’s average size of a deal is around $1.5

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Despite the growth in awarded venture capital (VC) funds, a staggering disparity remains between the amount of total VC funds invested in entrepreneurs and the portion of those funds invested in ventures founded and/or led by women—particularly women of color. I am no stranger to this gender gap within the VC space.

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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

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 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

JANUARY 11, 2021

Ajaib Group , an online investment platform that says it now runs the fifth-largest stock brokerage in Indonesia by number of trades, announced it has raised a $25 million Series A led by Horizons Ventures, the venture capital firm founded by Li Ka-Shing, and Alpha JWC.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Today, the Japanese investment conglomerate is announcing the launch of the SoftBank Latin America Fund II, its second dedicated private investment fund focused on tech companies located in LatAm. Fund II will explore options to raise additional capital,” SoftBank said in a statement. SoftBank Group Corp. billion as of June 30.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

Jenfi , a “growth-capital-as-a-service” platform, can provide online businesses with revenue-based financing in a little as a day. Participation came from returning investor Monk’s Hill Ventures, which led Jenfi’s Series A two years ago, ICU Ventures, Granite Oak, Korea Investment Partners & Golden Equator Capital and Atlas Ventures.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 21, 2024

How can influencers raise capital for companies or funds, without running afoul of restrictions on “general solicitation”? The 2012 bipartisan JOBS Act was supposed to empower funds and individuals to raise capital more openly: to publicly advertise their track record and what they’re selling, just like almost every other industry.

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