2019 disruption investment 
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. Matt Murphy and Grace Ge, Menlo Ventures Which trends are you most excited about in construction robotics from an investing perspective? About 10 percent of our time.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
To understand how much growth has occurred, African startups raised a meagre $400 million in 2015 compared to the $2 billion that came into the continent in 2019, according to Africa-focused fund Partech Africa. Did African startups raise $496M, $1B or $2B in 2019? billion while Disrupt Africa, $496 million for the same year.
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Entrepreneurs' Organization
APRIL 29, 2020
Written by Ruchir Punjabi , the co-founder and chief digital officer of Distributed Energy , a company that matches investors with renewable energy projects across Africa, Middle East and India, and the founder of Langoor, which was sold to Havas Group in 2019. Decisiveness towards survival, and later investing, will move the needle forward.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 18, 2021
This is one of Salesforce Ventures’ rare investments in Asia. Peddi said the startup has always looked up to Salesforce for inspiration, and investment from the enterprise giant is “nothing sort of a child receiving validation from their father,” he said.
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. According to the firm, that fund has generated a net IRR of 85% — with SoftBank having invested $3.5 SoftBank Group Corp.
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.
Tomasz Tunguz
JANUARY 26, 2020
The key question he poses is: has the industry become so large that it needs to be disrupted? Then these firms raised larger funds to invest in LBOs, but they diversified, too. The competitive dynamics in the market where access to invest is more valuable than capital. in the New Yorker.
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