TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

Sunstone, a higher education startup that collaborates with academic institutions to help upskill their students for employability, has raised $35 million in a new financing round as it looks to expand to more Indian cities. Sunstone founders said Friday WestBridge Capital led the startup’s Series C financing round.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 12, 2019

In fact, the work he does outside of his original business helped him earn the 2019 EO Global Citizen of the Year. In 2010, Ravi founded IndiVillage , the first information technology (IT) and information technology enabled services (ITeS) company in India to become certified as a B Corporation.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

From 2003-2022 the River Valley Investors operated as a traditional angel group, investing in nearly 100 startups. Ignitepost IgnitePOST is a service that enables sales & marketing teams to boost conversion rates by 15X. Launch413 takes startups to their first $10 million in revenue while providing early returns to investors.

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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.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

What we can learn from edtech startups’ expansion efforts in Europe. 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.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 15, 2023

Register Singaporean deep tech startup Zero-Error Systems (ZES) successfully raises $7.5 The successful funding round will enable ZES to expand its reach and enhance its position as a key player in the industry. The post Singaporean Space Startup Zero-Error Systems (ZES) Raises $7.5M million in Series A funding round.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

Sequoia Capital India and Southeast Asia disclosed 15 early-stage startups it has selected for the seventh cohort of its accelerator program Surge, pushing ahead with new investments even as the deal activity has considerably slowed in the region. Following is the list of startups available in the seventh cohort.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

With a focus on Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Mexico and India, selected startups receive £80,000 (~$100,000) in grant capital, six months of support and connections with follow-on investors. However, the selected six startups this year are from Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa. Here are the startups in the 8th cohort.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 23, 2023

Register The Indonesia-based fleet-tracking startup, TransTRACK, has successfully raised US$2.1 TransTRACK is a technology enabler startup that focuses on digitizing fleet operations. The post Indonesian Fleet-Tracking Startup TransTRACK Secures US$2.1 million in a pre-Series A funding round.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 31, 2023

The funding also had participation from TKG Taekwang, IBK-STIC Pioneer Fund, and existing investors, including Do Ventures, BAce Capital, and Vulpes, further highlighting the confidence in the startup’s potential. Founded in 2019 by Lam Do and Thu Do, Vuihoc has rapidly grown to serve over 1.1

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Nigerian mobility tech startup Metro Africa Xpress Inc. ( The startup told TechCrunch that it will use the funding to enter Ghana and Egypt by the end of the first quarter of 2022, and other additional markets in Francophone, East and Southern Africa by the close of the same year. Chinedu Azodoh is the startup’s other co-founder.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Capital might be harder to come by than it once was in startup land, but some firms are bucking the trend — hard. ” Why the large cash infusion — particularly large for a seed round — in a dev-focused startup, you might ask? In 2021, VC investment in identity management startups reached $3.2

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

It has acquired Splyt , a startup out of London that works with apps in areas like travel, ride-hailing and finance to help them build out “super app” strategies by integrating other services. That in itself was enough to bring on SoftBank as an investor. When it led a $19.5

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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

JANUARY 20, 2023

European startups have always suffered from the perennial startup problem: how to exit? It’s part of the reason so many European startups end up heading to the US. We will focus on the smaller software startups (e.g. If Haas is right, then German startups just got a potential new exit opportunity.

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propel(x)

JULY 11, 2022

Written by : Regina Beach Propel(x) curated a list of five startup-led tech trends in the 21st century that transformed industries. This list primarily looks at deep tech sectors, with many of the mentioned startups having grown into household names and multibillion-dollar companies today. Startups raised $342.2

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

UVeye’s automated vehicle inspection technology may have started out as a system to detect security threats , but the six-year-old Israeli startup has found deep interest and investment from the automotive sector. Ventures L.P. Since its founding in 2016, the company has raised $200 million in investment capital.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

But his South Korea–headquartered startup aims to digitize the laundry industry in the country. Through an on-demand mobile app that enables users to place an order to pick up and drop off their laundry and dry cleaning within 24 hours. Cho, a serial entrepreneur, launched Laundrygo’s on-demand B2C service in 2019.

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Impact Hub

MARCH 30, 2020

We could not agree more with the International Women’s Day 2020 campaign theme for this year’s celebrations of female achievement: “An equal world is an enabled world.”. The post She Breaks Barriers: Enabling an Equal World for Girls in Sport appeared first on Impact Hub.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

Fraud protection startup nSure AI has raised $6.8 Prior to this round, the company received $550,000 in pre-seed funding from Kamet in March 2019. NSure AI, which currently monitors and manages millions of transactions every month, has approved close to $1 billion in volume since going live in 2019.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

A Manila-headquartered startup called CloudEats , which operates cloud kitchens across the Philippines and Vietnam, just raised a $7 million Series A extension led by Nordstar to accelerate the digitization of food service in Southeast Asia. . The cloud kitchen market in Asia is projected to grow at 14.2% billion by 2030 , up from $15.2

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Y Combinator’s latest batch — W22 — features 414 startups from 42 countries, representing more than 80 sectors. India, with 32 startups, is the second-largest demographic represented in the new batch, while Nigeria is third, having delivered 18 startups. As usual, the U.S. has the most representation. beU delivery.

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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.” Aiming for America Dear Aiming, Congrats on taking this next big step forward to grow your startup!

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

As the demand for AI-powered apps grows, startups developing dedicated chips to accelerate AI workloads on-premises are reaping the benefits. After emerging from stealth in 2019, Sima.ai After emerging from stealth in 2019, Sima.ai It brings Sima.ia’s total capital raised to $150 million. As over-100-employee Sima.ai

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2023

A startup founded by ex-Apple design and engineering team Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno, Humane , today raised another $100 million to build what it calls an “integrated device and cloud services platform” for AI. The Humane team continues to make great progress toward a future of AI that is human-centric and enabling.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Talkshoplive is a startup that’s worked with stars like Paul McCartney and Garth Brooks, as well as small businesses, to host shopping-focused live videos. For one thing, the startup does not require consumers to download any additional apps in order to watch its videos.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Unit, a banking-as-a-service startup, has closed on a $100 million Series C round of funding led by Insight Partners. Founders Itai Damti and Doron Somech started Unit, which has dual headquarters in Tel Aviv and New York City, in late 2019. The startup has crossed an annualized transaction volume of $2.6

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

Zigbang , a South Korean proptech startup that provides real estate transactions service, announced on Thursday that it will acquire Samsung SDS’ home internet of things (IoT) unit to make a foray into the smart home industry. . million (700 billion KRW) valuation in July 2019 when it raised the latest funding $132.5 million (226.5

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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. According to the CEO, the startup is growing 40% month-on-month and has made $25,000 in revenue.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

When much of the shopping shifted online during the global pandemic, startups developing software and other products to aid the transition began to garner attention from venture capital firms. The CEO is Guru Hariharan, who you might remember from retail analytics company Boomerang Commerce , a Startup Battlefield finalist in 2014.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The Hong Kong-based feature phone startup, which has previously been backed by strategic investors like Google and TCL, has picked up $3.4 Africa is a particular focus for the investor, and it’s directly backed a number of startups in the region, too, including food supply-chain startup Twiga and fintech Jumo.

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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 startup has attracted nearly 20 people with backgrounds in behavioral science, health tech, AI and data.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

Parker , a startup offering a corporate credit card for e-commerce businesses, emerged from stealth Thursday with $157 million in equity and debt funding, much of which closed in 2022. Sibous and Ray founded Parker in 2019 and were part of the Y Combinator winter 2019 cohort.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Ascend Money , the Thailand-based fintech startup behind TrueMoney, an e-wallet service, announced today it has raised a $150 million Series C round at a valuation of $1.5 Its total payment volume stood at $14 billion in 2020 across the six countries in Southeast Asia, representing 84% growth between 2019 and 2020, according to its statement.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

An AR startup hopes to change that by partnering with an eyewear fashion brand. The fresh capital will enable Nreal to accelerate its global expansion and double down on the company’s consumer business in the U.S., the company said.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Q-CTRL , a Sydney-based startup that provides quantum control engineering solutions, announced today it has raised a $25 million Series B led by Airbus Ventures with participation from Ridgeline Partners, Main Sequence Ventures, Horizons Ventures, SquarePeg Capital, Sierra Ventures, DCVC, Sequoia Capital China and InQTel. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

When combined with the electronic signature capability of HelloSign, which Dropbox acquired in 2019 , the acquisition gives the company an end-to-end document sharing workflow it had been missing. Those workflows include creative, sales, client services or startups using DocSend to deliver proposals or pitch decks and track engagement.

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