TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2022

The new plans come after the startup secured $3 million in seed funding in a round led by Indus Valley Capital, Zayn Capital and Fatima Gobi Ventures, the first time that the three Pakistan-focused VCs are investing in a startup together. And this is because there are so many companies that are entering the country.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

Startups in the city raised more than $534 million through December 12, 2022, according to PitchBook, which, while not a lot of capital, is better than 2021, when they raised $336 million. “The ecosystem is on a tremendous upward trajectory,” he added. You can give it a listen here.).

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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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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Register Singapore-based venture capital firm Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia and India (VVSEAI) has successfully concluded its fifth funding round, raising $541 million. The figure represents an 80% increase compared to the amount raised for its previous fund, VVSEAI Fund IV, in 2019.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 31, 2023

With an impressive 60% of startups hailing from outside South Korea, COMEUP 2023 , embraces its 2023 theme, “We Move the World,” underlining its commitment to continuous innovation and nurturing the global startup ecosystem.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Deep Dive Africa 2019 - Pitch day. Deep Dive Africa exists to drive investor interest from Europe – and at the same time, to prepare African ventures to receive (foreign) capital. Investors will enjoy a tour of the startup ecosystem in each of these cities.

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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. No blog post about how Tiger is crushing everybody because it’s deploying all its capital in 1-year while “suckers” are investing over 3-years can change this reality.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Register Multi-stage global venture capital firm MSA Novo , announced that it has invested more than $16 million in six Indian startups and plans to further inject funds into the Indian startup ecosystem by the end of 2023. We are incredibly bullish on investing in India.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 3, 2022

There’s a prevailing narrative that the health of the Bay Area startup ecosystem faces challenges. San Francisco’s share of startup rounds by count has fallen from its perch ten years ago. In 2021, San Francisco Bay Area startups raised $126b. In 2019, US startups raised $126.4b.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

Called ThoughtfullChat, the startup’s platform includes personalized self-guided content and progress tracking, and access to mental health professionals through video calls and text-based coaching. Thoughtfull claims that since its launch in 2019, its revenue has grown 30x in total.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Over the last five years, Brazil has witnessed a startup boom. The main startups hubs in the country have traditionally been São Paulo and Belo Horizonte, but now a new wave of cities are building their own thriving local startup ecosystems, including Recife with Porto Digital hub and Florianópolis with Acate.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

A number of other investors, including Better Tomorrow Ventures, Firstminute Capital, Banana Capital, VentureSouq, Ratio Ventures and i2i Ventures, as well as angel investors Sriram Krishnan and Julian Shapiro also participated in the $11 million pre-Series A round.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – (February 7, 2023) Keiretsu Forum, a global network of angel investors, is exploring an expansion into the Texas startup ecosystem. Of note, Keiretsu Forum deal counts in 2022 remained well above 2018 and 2019 (pre-pandemic) levels. This could bring new investors, funds, and deal flow to the region.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Paytm has raised $1.104 billion in India’s largest-ever anchor round as part of its initial public offering, which is also shaping up to be the nation’s largest, as the poster child of the Indian startup ecosystem moves closer to listing in the public markets. billion capital it is looking to raise from the IPO.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

A hallmark of that spirit is quite visible these days in the country’s flourishing startup ecosystem, which has expanded rapidly in the past few years, to say the least. However, the global slowdown has impacted startups’ growth in the country, just like everywhere else in the world.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

We live in a world with a stereotypical representation of what a startup founder looks like, so it’s no wonder that a large portion of the population feels underrepresented. A Gender Gap Grader study shows that women represent 9 percent of developers in the startup ecosystem. Myth 1: Startup founders are young .

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Since he began angel investing in 2014, Soyombo has invested in 33 startups, including Stripe-owned Paystack , PiggyVest, and TeamApt. Today, the investor is announcing the launch of Voltron Capital , a Pan-African venture capital firm he co-founded with Abe Choi , a U.S.-based Voltron Capital will be managed on AngelList.

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

The venture capital market is racing ahead, foot on the gas, middle finger out the window, hair on fire. Startups have never had it this good when it comes to accessing private-market funds. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. The impact of the deluge of capital is what you’d expect: Round values are rising.

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 13, 2021

THE ORIGIN I was the Founder & CEO of InboxDollars from 2000 to 2019. Our Leadership Team started noticing something interesting around 2010: many of our customers were VC-backed startups. In 2019, InboxDollars was acquired by Prodege, LLC , parent company of Swagbucks, MyPoints, ShopAtHome and Upromise. and Canada.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Transcend Capital and AEF Greater Bay Area Fund, managed by Gobi Partners GBA, also participated in the round. Founded in 2019, SleekFlow now serves more than 5,000 businesses across the globe, including NARS Cosmetics, Bossini, Lalamove Hong Kong and PSB Academy. Image Credits: SleekFlow. and other countries in Europe.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – (February 7, 2023) Keiretsu Forum, a global network of angel investors, is exploring an expansion into the Texas startup ecosystem. Of note, Keiretsu Forum deal counts in 2022 remained well above 2018 and 2019 (pre-pandemic) levels. This could bring new investors, funds, and deal flow to the region.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

By the time the new century came around the area began to shift to look like a modern startup scene. Over time the Boston area watched the development of a robust technology startup ecosystem across industries like cybersecurity, robotics and biotech with companies like Hubspot, Wayfair, Rapid7, Boston Dynamics and Moderna, to name but a few.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

Qapita , a Singapore-based fintech that provides capitalization table and employee stock ownership plans (ESOP) management software, has raised $5 million in pre-Series A funding. Qapita was founded in 2019 by Ravi Ravulaparthi, Lakshman Gupta and Vamsee Mohan, and has since grown its team to 30 people.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

Existing backers Weatherford Capital and Accel also participated in the funding event. Previous backers also include Silverton Partners, Ballast Point Ventures, Daher Capital, Floodgate Fund, The Zebra CEO Keith Melnick, KDT and others. . 6 VCs talk the future of Austin’s exploding startup ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

As Italy reinstates many COVID-19 restrictions, the country’s tech ecosystem is watching and waiting to see what the wider effects of the emergency will be. Italy’s ecosystem for tech venture capital and startups has been in development for years and has made decent strides in the last decade.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

With venture investors committing to funding Black and minority founders, alongside the growing availability of government-backed proposals, such as New Jersey allocating $10 million to a seed fund for Black and Latinx startups , can we expect to see fundamental change? It is all possible, but patience is key. Tap into foreign markets.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 18, 2022

Seoul, its capital, is the world’s second-largest metropolitan area, with almost half of all Korean citizens living in or around the city. The spending per buyer in e-commerce is forecasted to go from $2,600 in 2019 to $4,300 in 2024. Thriving Startup Infrastructure: Korea is a country that has 18 unicorn startups.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 4, 2021

Related: Detroit’s Monica Wheat Strengthens Startup Ecosystem with Equality and Inclusion. The role involved working closely with Gilbert, who owns the Cleveland Cavaliers, and a colleague to analyze and pitch what they felt were the best trades the professional basketball team could possibly make to improve their odds of winning. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

Bangalore’s fintech startup ecosystem is inching closer to delivering a new unicorn: CRED. CRED, founded by Kunal Shah, has become one of the most talked-about startups in India, in part because of the pace at which its valuation has soared. I think @CRED_club has probably scaled faster than any Indian startup I know.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Despite the pandemic’s economic impact, Southeast Asia’s startup ecosystem has proven to be very resilient. The firm’s comprehensive “Southeast Asia Exit Landscape Report 2.0,” is a followup to a previous report published in 2019. There was a lot of pickup on the digital healthcare side as well.”. Funds want to cash out.

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Since starting in 2019, we have had the pleasure of working with great founders. Some may choose to bootstrap, others may pursue substantial capital injections, and some may sell for $25 million and others for $500 million and some may reach the fabled $1 billion-plus territory. We founded our company in September of 2019.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The founders built the product between June and September 2019 and went live in October. The investors in the round include VCs like Global Founders Capital and Liquid 2 Ventures. However , Obasi says while there are similarities, Prospa is not building a product for startups. startup-focused financial product.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Source: DocSend At DocSend, we studied the fundraising process of 175 startups at the seed stage in 2019 and analyzed data to understand which seed startups were successful in fundraising and why. When it comes to fundraising, there are some things outside of your control.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

There are plenty of reasons why Vilnius, Lithuania’s capital city, has an increasingly visible startup sector. But what are the locals excited about on the ground? , managing director, The Lithuanian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association. nas , partner, Open Circle Capital. Gytenis Galkis , partner, 70V.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

We live in a world with a stereotypical representation of what a startup founder looks like, so it’s no wonder that a large portion of the population feels underrepresented. A Gender Gap Grader study shows that women represent 9 percent of developers in the startup ecosystem. Myth 1: Startup founders are young .

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

C2V’s Fund 1, which closed at the end of 2019, has a current IRR of more than 50% and two exits. They’re arguably recession-proof, but they’re not that glamorous, so they get over looked,” Cunningham said. So far, this approach is working out for the firm. 7 ways investors can gain clarity while conducting technical due diligence.

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Founders Coop

AUGUST 7, 2018

It’s incredible to look back at how far our startup ecosystem has come in that time. As I mentioned in my talk, we had made just 40 investments at Founders’ Co-op then, and those companies had raised a relatively modest $140 million in follow-on capital. Seattle in 2013 was a different place. Fast forward five years.

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