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. A beginner’s guide to diversity, equity and inclusion.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Sesie Bonsi is the founder and CEO of Bleu , a financial technology platform focused on enabling touchless payment experiences. As a Black fintech founder, I believe that venture investors are making safe bets and investing in late-stage founders instead of early or even pre-seed stages. Sesie Bonsi. Contributor.

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Startup Blogpost

AUGUST 30, 2024

This interview is with Anjan Pathak , Co-founder at Vantage Fit. Anjan Pathak, Co-founder, Vantage Fit Anjan, can you tell us a bit about yourself and your journey to becoming a founder in the health and wellness technology space? As the co-founder of Vantage Fit, I am deeply involved in driving our technological progress.

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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

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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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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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

Mudafy , a tech-enabled real estate broker operating in Latin America, has raised $10 million in a Series A round of funding led by San Francisco-based Founders Fund. This is the beginning of a larger push into fintech and at the same time it improves access to better properties for customers,” said CEO and co-founder Franco Forte.

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FundersClub

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Caper announced its $10M Series A led by Lux Capital to fuel expansion of its AI-enabled smart shopping carts for grocery and convenience stores. GitLab announced its $268M Series E led by Goldman Sachs and Iconiq Capital to continue scaling its devops SaaS platform. We invested in the Seed, Series B, and Series D. Naborly announced its $7.5M

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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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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

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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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

John Borchers, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Decathlon Capital, claims to be the largest revenue-based financing investor in the US. I asked Michael Hoffman, Partner and General Counsel of Feenix, how he compared his firm with tech-enabled Merchant Cash Advance companies, e.g., Clearbanc , C2FO , Shopify Capital , etc.

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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

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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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

Atarraya , creator of Shrimpbox, a sustainable “plug-and-play” shrimp farming technology, is swimming to the surface after being in stealth mode since 2019. However, in 2019, the company realized that the challenge was a bit bigger than the founders previously anticipated. million in Series A dollars, and a new U.S.

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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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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

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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2023

Investors includes fund of funds, institutional investors from Europe and the USA, and the founders of some successful European companies, such as Christoph Jost, Peter Waleczek, Felix Haas, Jan Becker, Andreas Etten and Dr. Robert Wutke. The opportunity appears to be there.

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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

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

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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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

Analysts say this industry, where spending was $118 billion in 2019, isn’t done with big growth and predict it will more than double by 2030 to $277 billion. In addition to the cat café, which will open in New York in the fall, and retail launch, the new capital enables Smalls to grow its headcount by 25%.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

Sophie Alcorn Contributor Share on Twitter Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” More posts by this contributor Dear Sophie: How can I return to the United States as a founder?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

Pluang’s last round of funding was a $3 million Series A in 2019. . Launched in 2019, Pluang started with gold and has since grown its range of asset classes, so investors can diversify their holdings and decrease risk. Existing investors Square Peg, Go-Ventures and Openspace Ventures also contributed. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

New and existing investors such as Humla Ventures, Nabuboto, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot and Pulse Africa founder Leonard Stiegeler participated. We were building an app that merchants can use to run their online businesses, from selling to delivery to financing, said the CEO, who put €200,000 of his money into the startup in 2019.

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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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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In 2019, Dan Noma brought the real estate community the first-ever certification to work with iBuyers & Investors, called iReal Estate Pro. Easy Street Offers is a tech-enabled platform that addresses the needs of both agents and investors and identifies the gap between the two in an organized, systematic manner. Buckle up!

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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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Jason Malki

AUGUST 1, 2023

Essence started in 2019 and backed amazing companies like Motherduck, Modal, Warp.dev, Sardine.ai Tim was previously the CEO / founder of Hyperpilot, which is a startup backed by top funds like NEA and Bessemer aiming to run Kubernetes on autopilot that achieves 5–10x cost and performance benefits. and Jasper.ai.

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Our focus is on founders and heads of people, finance, and operations. Since its launch in 2019, Remote has supported global relocations, helping over 5,000 individuals secure work permits in 2023 alone. Remote enables startups to hire, manage, and pay around the world with ease so they can focus on scaling and strategy.

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2023

Staytuned Digital has $34 million in new equity and debt to continue developing a software suite for e-commerce brands with a goal of what co-founder Serge Kassardjian described as “the Salesforce suite for e-commerce stores.” “E-commerce TechCrunch profiled Staytuned back in 2019 when the company was focused on video.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Leading the round is European venture capital firm Atomico , with participation from Salesforce Ventures, and angel investors Jacob de Geer (CEO/co-founder of iZettle), Chris Hitchen (partner at Inventures, founder at Getprice) and Thijn Lamers (former EVP at Adyen). It brings total funding raised to $18.5 Image Credits: Qatalog.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

Wellthy is a startup aimed at helping caregivers be more equipped to deal with all aspects of their various responsibilities by serving as a self-described “tech-enabled care concierge.” Its founder, Lindsay Jurist-Rosner, knows firsthand how challenging caregiving can be. Founder and CEO Lindsay Jurist-Rosner with her parents.

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