TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Comcast Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Real Estate Technology (RET) Ventures co-led the financing, which brings the company’s total raised to $32 million since its 2019 inception. By creating buildings that are worthy of being repeated, tools and systems can be created to enable continuous improvement and increase efficiency.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

The API-based tool, dubbed Grow, has so far been integrated with 22 tech entities across Africa including Topship, Barter by Flutterwave, Float, Fingo and Payhippo, enabling them to either bundle their main products with insurance packages or offer insurance as a standalone service.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Andela co-founder Christina Sass, and former Andela executives Jessica Chervin, Justin Ziegler, as well as Johnny Falla, who currently serves as chief development and growth officer at Wowzi, took part in the round too. Wowzi co-founders (l-r) Mike Otieno, Hassan Bashir and Brian Mogeni. This was preceded by a $1.2

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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

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. Chinedu Azodoh is the startup’s other co-founder.

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Dream It

MAY 18, 2020

Market Opportunities "Our mission has always been to seek out and support the patient populations that need help the most,” said Wellth CEO and Co-founder Matthew Loper. Wellth’s platform has the potential to enable new models of patient engagement and drive further transformation for the 200,000 patients we serve.” ? ?

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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. For example, founders in our previous cohort were all male. Here are the startups in the 8th cohort.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The Kenyan startup has over the last three years been offering a lifeline to traders in Kenya by enabling them to make mobile money transactions that are devoid of transfer charges through its Leja app. Morgane Kablan , is the startup’s other co-founder and chief operating officer.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

Sunstone founders said Friday WestBridge Capital led the startup’s Series C financing round. Founded in 2019, Sunstone is addressing these challenges by offering students a wide-range of additional courses and helping them with securing jobs, its co-founder Piyush Nangru told TechCrunch in an interview.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

In recent years, calling oneself a startup founder was certainly seen as a flex. In 2019, a report showed that 72% of surveyed entrepreneurs self-reported mental health issues, according to Forbes. TechCrunch: Why is the discussion around African founders’ mental health critical right now?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

Since 2019, Plaid-esque companies, but with different twists to their offerings, have emerged to solve these issues. Fara Ashiru Jituboh and David Peterside founded the company in June 2019. The founders tell me that Accenture and Susa represent smart money investors aligned with Okra’s vision and technology infrastructure play.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Ben Eluan and Osezele Orukpe , two software engineers based in Nigeria, faced this problem in 2019. The crypto remittance company was built to enable merchants to send and receive money from anywhere in the world, Eluan tells me. Pioneer gives founders access to funding streams and talent hardly found outside Silicon Valley.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2021

The startup told TechCrunch that the new tranche concludes its Series B round, which it kickstarted in 2019 with a tranche of $12.7 In late 2019, it entered the e-commerce space with JioMart through a joint venture with sister subsidiary telecom giant Jio Platforms. Indian B2B e-commerce startup Udaan raises $280 million.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

He focuses primarily on investments in software and technology-enabled business services. Should SaaS founders be raising capital now? Gartner recently forecast that SaaS revenue worldwide could surpass $140 billion by 2022, which would represent a 40% increase over 2019’s roughly $100 billion. Share on Twitter.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 26, 2024

HW: You’ve been a startup founder as well as an executive at larger tech companies. Even more important, the hiring manager and the founder/CEO should ideally be aware of the implications of having an employee base where a large number of people have never been through the experience of being in a startup.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

When my co-founders and I launched Branch in 2015, our mission was to deliver world class financial services to the mobile generation. The groundwork was Aadhaar (“foundation” in Hindi), a nationwide database established by the government in 2009 to enable digital identity verification. billion Indians, over 90% of the population.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Contributed by Raj Thakkar, founder and CEO, Charter School Business Management Inc. That’s the quandary I faced in July 2019. That’s the quandary I faced in July 2019. Raj Thakkar is founder and CEO of Charter School Business Management , an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) company in New York.

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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 1, 2021

Existing investors Pitango , which led the company’s $5 million seed round, and Global Founders Capital also participated in this round. “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.

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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

JUNE 14, 2021

Prior to this round, the company received $550,000 in pre-seed funding from Kamet in March 2019. Founders Alex Zeltcer and Ziv Isaiah started the company after experiencing the unique challenges faced by retailers of digital assets. RSA spins off fraud and risk intelligence unit as Outseer.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

Since its launch in March 2019 , the accelerator has helped its participating startups collectively raise over $1.7 Sequoia said its cohort includes some startups with whom it partnered when they had no product as well as those being run by repeat founders and entrepreneurs with extensive experience in their respective sectors.

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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

We profiled the Austin-based company’s founders Larissa Russell and Fiona Lee back in 2019 when they raised $3 million in a round led by Moment Ventures that also included M12. The Series A also enabled the company to do more hiring, growing to 58 employees from 33 last December. We’ve had to adapt,” Lee added.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 31, 2023

Founded in 2019 by Lam Do and Thu Do, Vuihoc has rapidly grown to serve over 1.1 Additionally, Vuihoc provides live classes facilitating private or small group learning, enabling students to receive instant feedback and support in their educational journey. million users, primarily concentrated in Tier 2 and 3 cities.

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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. Regulations were relaxed, and test sites were created, enabling industrial companies to conduct test flights. billion in 2014 and KRW 4.8

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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. Marshall Pribadi, CEO and Co-Founder of Privy, said he is thrilled to welcome KKR as among their new investors.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

William Temple, Ampotech CEO and Co-Founder, said they always look for strategic investors that share their passion in energy and sustainability. Ampotech, which is a spin-off from an A*STAR and University of Illinois research institute, also raised $1 in vestments during the seed funding round in 2019.

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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. Dr. Shu Wei, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of ZES emphasizes the importance of addressing power reliability and data integrity concerns in satellite electronics systems.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Kerry Wang told TechCrunch that she felt some interview processes didn’t enable enough time for them to fully demonstrate how they were different. million seed round in 2019. As part of the investment, Founders Fund general partner Keith Rabois has joined Searchlight’s board.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2023

” “Fungible’s technologies help enable high-performance, scalable, disaggregated, scaled-out data center infrastructure with reliability and security,” Girish Bablani, the CVP of Microsoft’s Azure Core division, wrote in a blog post. Increasing competition in the market for DPUs put pressure on Fungible, as well.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

There are an estimated 100,000 Italians already living in London, attracting the likes of Riccardo Zacconi, co-founder of King.com (maker of Candy Crush) and Simon Beckerman of social shopping app Depop. In 2019, about 300 deals were venture-backed. In 2019, about 300 deals were venture-backed. Simone Riva , partner, H14.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

For startup founders, the following leadership traits are key. Given how quickly word spreads in the startup community, you can’t risk earning a reputation as a “me first” founder. Not only does delegating enable you to accomplish more than you could alone, but it indicates that you believe in your team members. Accountability.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2022

Lahore-based coworking space startup, Colabs , is set to roll-out a SaaS product to enable businesses meet back-office needs including company registration, talent sourcing and management, payroll processing and legal and tax compliance. We were fortunate enough to have met some of the startups we invested in, in their spaces.”.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

To date, the company has raised $38 million since being founded in 2019 by founder and CEO Celine Halioua. billion in 2019, according to the American Pet Products Association. She touts her choice of investor makeup, 50% female, as a way of elevating more women in the areas of deep tech and longevity.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Upon sensing a need for such a service, El-Zomor teamed up with his co-founders — Alaa Jarkas, Ahmed Sakr and Hossam Saraya — who have some background in the industry to build ILLA. ” “Middle-mile logistics is one of the most underinvested segments of the global supply chain market.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In this exclusive interview, Younghak Ahn , the CEO and Founder of EVENTUS shares insights into his journey, the platform’s mission, and their ambitious plans for the future. “We created an educational SaaS that enabled real-time two-way communication between teachers and students through IT. ” Ahn highlights.

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