TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

billion in 2019, while U.S. goods imports from India in 2019 were $87.4 The new funding will enable the company to invest in marketing to get in front of buyers and invest on its technology to advance its cataloging feature so that goods pass through customs seamlessly. goods imports from China totaled $451.7

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

Jakarta-based investment app Pluang announced that it has raised $55 million led by Accel. Pluang’s last round of funding was a $3 million Series A in 2019. . Pluang’s last round of funding was a $3 million Series A in 2019. . The app is also launching a new features that will users to invest in fractional U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

At the time, the German investment outfit was a founding shareholder in the African-based unicorn. The brothers started the company in a niche digital lending market, but now, the company offers a plethora of services from savings to payments and investments. billion (~$32.55 But that’s not the only event to keep an eye on.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Zego , the insurtech that got its start by offering flexible motorbike insurance for gig economy workers but has since expanded with a range of tech-enabled commercial motor insurance products, has raised $150 million. Leading the London-based company’s C round — giving it a $1.1

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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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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.

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 1, 2023

Essence started in 2019 and backed amazing companies like Motherduck, Modal, Warp.dev, Sardine.ai How did you break into tech investing? After exiting Hyperpilot to Cloudera, like many other exited founders I started to angel invest into other founders I already know or met during my own founder journey. and Jasper.ai.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

This is the New York-headquartered firm’s first investment in Pakistan. This is also Firstminute Capital’s first investment in the South Asian market. This is also Firstminute Capital’s first investment in the South Asian market. “We The investment is a testament to the incredible traction and vision demonstrated by the team.”.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

The company’s ION customers could include global investment banks, and its second chip ATOM targets large companies in the cloud sector and data centers, Park added. That means Rebellions’ ION enables faster data execution, so that lead orders can be processed more quickly and profitably than traders with slower execution speeds.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2022

HSBC Asset Management, the investment arm of Britain’s HSBC Group, has led a seed round of $4 million in Singapore’s customer intelligence and risk assessment startup Bizbaz , the two said Friday. The investment from HSBC, which doesn’t typically back early-stage startups, is noteworthy for Bizbaz.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

For Ashutosh Sharma, head of India investments at Prosus Ventures, it is paramount for startups to ensure their existence at this time. How has your investment strategy changed? Focus on the core business and deprioritize experimental investments. Compared to 2019, what were the most notable investment trends in India in 2022?

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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. New research looking into how U.K. population.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

Signaling that investments in the supply chain sector remain robust, Pando , a startup developing fulfillment management technologies, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series B round, bringing its total raised to $45 million. billion in 2019. The result of those major disruptions?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

With its latest acquisition Walmart is further investing in technology that will enable shopping via voice and chat. Walmart, however, intends to use Botmock for what it calls “conversational commerce” — an area of increased investment in recent months.

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FundersClub

OCTOBER 31, 2019

We invested in the Seed, Series B, and Series C. We invested in the Seed, Series B, and Series D. 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. We invested in the Seed and Series A. We invested in the Seed.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

LOS ANGELES, CA – January 26, 2023 – Machina Labs today announced the completion of an investment by Lockheed Martin Ventures (LMV), the venture arm of Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT ), a global security and aerospace company. Robotic sheet forming is the first process enabled by Machina’s patented manufacturing platform.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Pinterest is further investing in creator tools and video with today’s news it’s acquired the video creation and editing app, Vochi, for an undisclosed sum. Our team also developed a custom rendering engine for video effects that enables instant application in 4K on mobile devices. Image Credits: VOCHI.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

When he sold that startup, Distil Networks, to Imperva 2019 , he decided to build a new company that could help. There was a reason to keep the target market in that range — the models were less sophisticated, enabling Finmark to build the first iteration of the product faster. The approach worked.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2022

fintech-focused venture capital firm, has led a new investment in TeamApt , a Nigerian fintech that provides business payments and banking platforms. The investment was over $50 million, according to sources familiar with the matter, though neither QED nor TeamApt would confirm the figure. QED Investors , a U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

That was three times more than the association recorded in fiscal year 2019. H Twenty Capital (H20) co-founders Daniel Lloreda and Mauricio Porras recall getting into the region in 2018, a time Lloreda considered pretty early to be the investment space. Venture capital continues to flow into Latin America at a staggering rate.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 20, 2023

“The strong relationship between New Jersey and India has gained increasing momentum since we opened the New Jersey India Center to cultivate economic opportunities during our trip to the country in 2019,” said Governor Phil Murphy. “I ” About Choose New Jersey, Inc. .” ” About Choose New Jersey, Inc.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MARCH 20, 2021

iMCI) recently led a $750,000 seed-round investment in Oklahoma City-based PrivacyBrain. The investment included $375,000 from the iMCI-managed Oklahoma Seed Capital Fund, along with co-investment from Cortado Ventures, the i2E-managed SeedStep Angels, and remaining investment from other Angel investors.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Derek Zanutto is a general partner at CapitalG , Alphabet’s independent growth fund, where he invests in data, security and SaaS-based enterprise software. Our team wanted to invest in the company on behalf of my private equity firm, but was utterly daunted by its “eye-popping” $1 billion valuation.

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Impact Hub

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Ahead of this year’s Global Climate Strike (20-27 September) and the Global Goals Week (21-30 September), the Impact Hub network is launching its 2019 Global Impact Report. The 2019 Global Impact Report is the culmination of gathering relevant data from a number of their 16,500 members of 100+ locations in over 55 countries around the globe.

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Angel Capital Association

APRIL 30, 2023

Y/C helped enable this by introducing the Post-Money SAFE in 2018, fixing some of the more egregious problems with SAFEs, principally the lack of transparency about valuations when multiple SAFEs convert to equity. So, are SAFEs truly dominating early-stage investing? in 2019 to 8% in 2020, and remained at that level in 2021.

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HPA

MARCH 23, 2021

Leaf Trade connects licensed wholesale cannabis retailers and suppliers and standardizes operational practices that enable them to scale in a rapidly-expanding industry. This round of funding will accelerate expansion into new markets and investment in their core technology.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Accredited investors are invited to nation’s largest angel conference, which has invested $4.8M in 17 startups since 2019. By providing a low initial investment and robust deal flow, SDAC enables accredited investors from across the U.S. To learn more, visit www.thesdangels.com.

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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

JANUARY 27, 2022

Even as recently as 2019, the edtech ecosystem could have been likened to a shallow well. Gone are the days when pitches to VCs would have to overcome skepticism on market size, and consumer readiness to adopt tech-enabled learning solutions. Not surprisingly, 2021 saw a boom in edtech investment across a spectra of investors.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 18, 2023

The funding was led by Real Tech Holdings, a prominent Japanese Venture Capital firm, with the participation of corporate investors, including Mitsubishi Electric, Seeds Capital, Wavemaker Partners, New Keynes Investments, and the State Government of Victoria in Australia. Back in 2019, Hydroleap secured a funding round of US$1.9

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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. It will also extend loans to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) based on data from its Leja app. “We

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 1, 2023

Register Thailand’s health-tech company, HD , has secured investment from FEBE Ventures , a well-known venture capital firm headquartered in Vietnam. The investment from FEBE Ventures will enable HD to strengthen its marketplace further. The venture aims to validate, support, and invest in early-stage healthcare startups.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. In 2019 we partnered with several revenue-based lending providers, effectively creating a marketplace. “. We’re currently evaluating about 20 companies a month and issuing term sheets to 25% of them; those that fit our investment criteria.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. I believe that Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

with co-investment from OSF Ventures, Sony Innovation Fund, and Dreampact Ventures. The company was also a member of the 2016 Dreamit Ventures accelerator program and recently took first place at the 7th Annual Insight Product Development 2019 HealthTECH Startup Competition. . – September 3, 2020 – PhotoniCare, Inc.,

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Through Cellico ‘s independently developed big data-based Visual Field Test program, it enables easy monitoring of patients’ visual acuity measurements and visual blind spots. ” Cellico, celebrating its fourth year since its establishment in 2019, holds 30 intellectual property rights.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

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 This helped with fraud and enabled smooth KYC compliance.

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