TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Veev, a real estate developer turned tech-enabled homebuilder, announced today that it has raised $400 million a Series D round that propels the company to “unicorn status.” Interestingly, Veev Group started its life as a traditional real estate developer and asset manager.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

But if you ask the co-founders of Modular , a startup emerging from stealth today, the software used to develop it is “monolithic,” fractured into silos piled with layers of complexity. “Modular’s main competition is the mindset that dominates AI software development within Big Tech, and Big Tech itself,” Lattner said.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

Curacel , the YC-backed startup that is developing insurance infrastructure for the African market, has launched a new interface that allows digital businesses like those in retail, fintech, e-commerce and logistics to add insurance to their core products.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In 2019 alone, the robotics space saw roughly 600 venture-backed fundraising rounds, while construction companies successfully raised roughly 200 venture rounds. As of April 2019, there are 434,000 vacant construction jobs ( Forbes ).From As of February 2017, nearly 200,000 construction jobs were left unfilled across the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

publicly listed software and services company that targets engineering and design industries, has acquired Norway’s Spacemaker , a startup that has developed AI-supported software for urban development. Other investors on the cap table include Nordic real estate innovator NREP, Nordic property developer OBOS, U.K.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

Metabase previously raised $8 million in Series A funding back in 2019, led by NEA. Metabase was developed within venture studio Expa and spun out as an easy way for people to interact with data sets, co-founder and CEO Sameer Al-Sakran told TechCrunch. million in funding since it was founded in 2015.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

By any objective measure the amount of money going into tech-enabled startups is up considerably (left chart) while the amount of money that VC funds have raised from LPs is also up significantly (right chart). On the other hand, the best firms have developed strategies to capture more value while their best portfolio companies stay private.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The investment will enable us to transform the lives of hundreds of thousands of drivers across the continent, accelerate international expansion, and continue our pioneering initiatives in the mobility space,” said MAX co-founder and CEO Adetayo Bamiduro.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

million Series A round back in 2017, but it also raised $20 million in Series B funding in 2019. This means companies have to use mobile to stay competitive, but how they are developing mobile is getting more complex.”. Developers are busy running processes so they can’t concentrate fully on creating new value for customers, he added.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 17, 2018

As per a prediction made by IDC (International Data Corporation), by 2019, 40% of digital transformation initiatives will be supported by some sort of cognitive computing or AI effort. AI-enabled customer journey analytics can sift through a much, much larger and more complex data space and thereby uncover many more business opportunities.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 2, 2023

Chosen companies receive support, including a 40-80% rent subsidy, public laboratories, indoor drone testing grounds, and meeting rooms, enabling them to concentrate on technological advancement. The 2nd Pangyo Techno Valley inaugurated its Business Growth Center with the vision to cultivate nascent drone developers.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

This brings the company’s total funding to $29 million since its inception in 2019 by co-founders Joshua March, CEO, and Kasia Gora, CTO. The Bay Area–based food tech startup announced Wednesday a $22 million Series A round led by a16z.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

He focuses primarily on investments in software and technology-enabled business services. The global software as a service (SaaS) industry is sustaining its steep growth trajectory, but developing and pricing professional services is oftentimes a difficult proposition for SaaS companies. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

First off, from Kenya, Koa enables users to save and invest, gaining control over their finances. Lami is an insurance platform and API that enables more individuals and businesses to access insurance coverage. African fintech dominates Catalyst Fund’s 2019 startup cohort. Here are the startups in the 8th cohort.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

But around 2017, we began to develop an interest in India. The groundwork was Aadhaar (“foundation” in Hindi), a nationwide database established by the government in 2009 to enable digital identity verification. By 2019, the government had issued a unique ID to nearly every adult resident in India; today, the system is used by 1.3

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

That’s the quandary I faced in July 2019. Because my second-in-command and I had recently acquired the tools and professional development to handle it. It’s one of the best professional development programs I’ve ever encountered, and it’s forever changed how I run and scale my business. My company was growing?fast.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The last two decades have seen explosive advancement in biomedical and therapeutic innovations, like the Human Genome Project , the discovery of CRISPR , and the rapid development of Covid-19 mRNA vaccines, to name a few. Pharma R&D investment likewise increased from $38 billion in 2000 to $83 billion by 2019.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

The pandemic has hastened a shift of most commerce becoming e-commerce in the last year, and that has brought a new focus on startups that are helping to enable that process. The capital is coming from a group of investors that includes Eurazeo Growth, Sprints Capital and Wellington Management.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

New York-based WoodSpoon was started in 2019 by Oren Saar and Merav Kalish Rozengarten, two Israelis in America that longed for the food they grew up with. WoodSpoon has about 30 employees and plans to hire more engineers to continue developing its technology. billion in 2021, and then reach $192.16

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 15, 2023

The successful funding round will enable ZES to expand its reach and enhance its position as a key player in the industry. The new funding secured by Zero-Error Systems (ZES) will further support the company’s research and development activities in Singapore. The post Singaporean Space Startup Zero-Error Systems (ZES) Raises $7.5M

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

The capital comes at a critical time for Rivian, which is undertaking the design, development, production and delivery of two consumer vehicles (the R1T pickup truck and the R1S SUV), and building out of its electric vehicle charging network as well as fulfilling an order for 100,000 commercial delivery vans for Amazon. Image Credits: Rivian.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 20, 2023

Accredify was founded in 2019 and initially provided solutions to the education sector for issuing verifiable qualifications. However, its SaaS solution is now being used across various public and private sectors, enabling government institutes and enterprises to issue verifiable documents digitally.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

It will also support the development of new consumer and enterprise products to enable Indonesians and businesses to access a wider range of services securely and accelerate broader digital transformation. The Company also intends to expand into overseas market to further accelerate growth.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

. “A good example of that is our customer-facing admin portal that contains a rich set of self-serve capabilities that you can enable within your product with a toggle-in experience. In the past, it could take years to develop self-served user management.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

As a founding scientist at a medical diagnostics startup in Boston, Beattie’s job was to develop new rapid diagnostic tests. Beattie says to TechCrunch that while he saw many exciting new tests in development in the US, he didn’t see the same in Ghana. This decentralised approach is what attracted U.S.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Register Cellico (CEO Kim Jungsuk ) won CES Innovation Awards in three categories: Wearable Technologies, Digital Health, and Accessibility & Aging Tech, for their augmented reality (AR) smart glasses (product name: EyeCane), which they are developing for visually impaired patients.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This achievement also enables the miniaturization of the dialysis machine to a size that can be conveniently carried in a small bag. The funds will play a crucial role in facilitating these developments.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Its last valuation of $700 million came when the company raised a $100 million Series D in 2019. In addition, the company is investing in growth, continued expansion of technology and product development and M&A. It also changes the economic development in the countries where they live.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

In an interview with TechCrunch, CEO Rakesh Yadav said that the new capital will be used to grow Jarvis ML’s R&D and sales and marketing teams to “accelerate product development and market penetration.” Other rivals include Flybits and Monetate (which was acquired by Kibo in 2019).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Aronu Ugochukwu and Abafor Chima founded the startup in 2019, and Ugochukwu is quite familiar with currency devaluation. . Currency devaluation is a common economic nightmare faced in most African countries and other developing countries worldwide. DeFi aims to bridge the gap between decentralized blockchains and financial services.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 3, 2023

With low utilization rates across private hospital infrastructure, this ‘Airbnb for Surgeries’ solution enables HD to help both healthcare providers as well as patients. HD was founded in 2019 by a team of passionate and dedicated individuals with a shared healthcare vision for the future.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

While working as a software engineer in Japan, Singapore and San Francisco for the past 10 years, Ryo Chikazawa , CEO and co-founder of Autify , came to realize that there’s one common problem in the software development industry; software testing takes excessive time. The latest funding brings Autify’s total raised to $12.2

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

In August 2019, Kimberly Hickok Smith spoke at the MyEO Women of EO Summit in Bogota, Colombia. My clients were all in the then “under-developed world” of Latin America and Africa and a typical trip was 16 countries in 18 days. I was the first elected president of EO and the first chairman of the Global Board. An evolving tribe.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

It’s a phenomenon Flux has been thinking about for a while now, beginning development in 2019 with a team of employees who worked at places like Apple, Facebook and NASA. The funding will go toward expanding Flux’s development team, investing R&D for additional features and increasing its marketing reach.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

No-code platforms have developed into a hot market , and Stacker , a London-based no-code platform is attempting to bring the concept to a new level. The company has a big vision to be the software development tool for business units.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Ximena Aleman is co-founder and chief business development officer at Prometeo , an open banking platform that serves Latin America. In 2019, API usage was more mature in the financial and e-commerce sectors, but it is now venturing into other areas such as marketing and insurance. Ximena Aleman. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Pod Foods is keeping grocery shelves full of the emerging food brands that consumers are asking for and announced today $10 million in Series A funding to continue developing its digital wholesale business-to-business marketplace. The Series A also enabled the company to do more hiring, growing to 58 employees from 33 last December.

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