TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Sesie Bonsi is the founder and CEO of Bleu , a financial technology platform focused on enabling touchless payment experiences. But most venture-backed startups are “still overwhelmingly white, male, Ivy-League-educated and based in Silicon Valley,” according to a study conducted by RateMyInvestor and Diversity VC. hit nearly $1.8

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Amitruck , a Kenyan tech-enabled logistics platform, is one such provider of solutions that streamline the shipping market. However, over the last one decade, tech solutions are emerging to bring efficiency into the sector and make shipping cheaper, while increasing the availability of options for shippers. Image Credits: Amitruck.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 17, 2023

Register Singapore-based venture capital firm Jungle Ventures has announced its merger with HealthXCapital , an early-stage VC firm specializing in healthcare investments. This move is expected to reinforce Jungle Ventures’ foothold in the healthcare sector across Southeast Asia and India.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Register Centbee, a blockchain payments company based in London, has closed its pre-Series A round with $1 million in investments from Ayre Ventures. The additional investment from Ayre Group will enable the company to scale and grow as well as strengthen its technical and operating capacities.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Via TechCrunch by Arman Tabatabai: Venture capital has been flooding the various subverticals under the robotics umbrella in recent years, and the construction space is one of the largest beneficiaries. Matt Murphy and Grace Ge, Menlo Ventures Which trends are you most excited about in construction robotics from an investing perspective?

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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. Last month, the global healthcare venture platform VentureBlick secured US$2.6

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

CHAI wants to fix this with an API that enables companies to accept over 20 payment systems. The round was led by Hanhwa Investment & Securities, with participation from SoftBank Ventures Asia (the early-stage venture capital arm of SoftBank Group), SK Networks, Aarden Partners and other strategic partners.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

He says that the goal is eventually to replace traditional ERP (enterprise resource planning) software with this “API-enabled data platform that’s connected to all of the best solutions in the market, not just what happens to be bundled together in the [vendor’s] API.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Pan-African venture capital fund 4DX Ventures and unicorn Flutterwave are the investors in the round, and it signifies two particular markers for the pair. Flutterwave’s involvement in the round is a continuation of the unicorn’s partnership with CinetPay that started in 2019, said both companies in a statement.

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Dream It

MAY 18, 2020

Wellth , a platform designed to improve treatment adherence using behavioral economics, announced the closing of their $10M Series A round, co-led by yabeo and Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund ( BIVF ). By Elliot Levy , Healthtech Associate at Dreamit Ventures Subscribe to Dreamit’s Podcast on Apple , Google Podcasts , or Spotify.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2021

MAX started out in 2015 as a delivery startup using motorcycles to fulfil customer orders before venturing into ride-hailing, and later into vehicle subscription and financing services – solutions it came up with based on the data from its first services.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2021

The five-year-old startup said the new tranche of its Series B financing round was led by VII Ventures, with participation from Nutresa, Veronorte, Jumbofund, Klinkert Investment Trust, Peter Crosby Trust, Nexus Venture Partners and Discovery Ventures. Indian B2B e-commerce startup Udaan raises $280 million.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

million from investors over the last few months, part of which includes a recently concluded $2 million seed round that was led by the Africa-focused venture capital firm 4DX Ventures. Wowzi, which connects social media users with advertisers and provides consumer insights, has secured a total of $3.2 This was preceded by a $1.2

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

One of its players, Taager , is a social e-commerce platform enabling online merchants with end-to-end logistics. The seed round was led by Pan-African focused VC 4DX Ventures. It also included participation from Raed Ventures, Beco Capital, Breyer Capital and some private investors, including Magnus Olsson, co-founder of Careem.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

” Among the roles it is hiring for are Head of Data Science / Credit, Fraud, & Pricing and Partner Marketing & Enablement. million seed round from Index Ventures with CoinFund and FJ Labs also participating. over the same period in 2019 — small businesses are thriving and need support. We’re meeting a need.

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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. Both M12 and Moment Ventures returned for the Series A, which was led by Industrious Ventures, and now gives the company $13 million in total funding.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The funding round was spearheaded by Lion X Ventures and Vickers Venture Partners, with participation from Advanced MedTech and Eckuity Capital. This achievement also enables the miniaturization of the dialysis machine to a size that can be conveniently carried in a small bag.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Earth Venture Capital (Earth VC), a global climate tech venture fund with Southeast Asia focus, led the recently concluded funding round that was also participated by KSL Maritime Ventures, the venture capital arm of The Kuok Maritime Group, and existing Ampotech investors like Silicon Solution Ventures and SEEDS Capital.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 3, 2023

Partech Partners, M Venture Partners, AC Ventures, iSeed, and Orvel Ventures. With low utilization rates across private hospital infrastructure, this ‘Airbnb for Surgeries’ solution enables HD to help both healthcare providers as well as patients.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

million in a seed round of funding that closed in 2018 and was led by ConsenSys Ventures and included participation from SoFi. . Since the end of 2019, BlockFi has seen its client base grow from 10,000 to more than 225,000. Bain Capital Ventures Partner Stefan Cohen agrees. million led by Valar Ventures.

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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 billion in follow-on funding, the venture firm said, with over 60% of companies from the first five cohorts raising their Series A and beyond. Info Edge Ventures is a co-investor.). 8VC is a co-investor.).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The report , by the not-for-profit community interest company Extend Ventures , looked at how VC has been invested in the U.K. between 2009 and 2019 — providing data on 3,784 entrepreneurs who started 2,002 companies over this period. of the venture capital investments made at seed, early and late-stage over this decade. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Italy’s ecosystem for tech venture capital and startups has been in development for years and has made decent strides in the last decade. In 2019, Italian startups attracted $850 million, compared to just €140 million in 2017, as the VC ecosystem became less insular and more international investors arrived.

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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

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The company raised $27 million in Series A funding in a round, led by Khosla Ventures and including First Round Capital, Box Group, Collaborative Fund, The Longevity Fund and Lachy Groom — all companies involved in Loyal’s $11 million seed round raised in 2020, as well as a group of angel investors. Alexander Morgan, M.D.

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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

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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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 2, 2023

The 2nd Pangyo Business Support Hub with Drone Enterprise Support Center (Photo = beSUCCESS) In a bid to foster startups and venture companies that will lead the future drone and UAM market, the Korea Institute of Aviation Safety Technology has been operating the Drone Startup Support Center since 2017. Furthermore, NCsoft invested KRW 1.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

This round of funding was led by DST Global, with additional participation from Aspex Management, Reverent Partners and existing investors such as Goodwater Capital, Altos Ventures, SoftBank Ventures Asia, Kakao Ventures, Strong Ventures and Capstone Partners. million monthly active users (MAUs) in 2019, 4.8

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

The venture potential of a startup that caters to individual students — instead of a slow-moving, small-pocketed institution — has a bullish aura that attracts investors. Last year brought a flurry of record-breaking venture capital to the sector. billion in 2019. billion last year, compared to $4.7 billion the prior year.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Restaurant Brands International led the round along with World Trade Ventures and a group of individual investors, including Victor Lazarte. New York-based WoodSpoon was started in 2019 by Oren Saar and Merav Kalish Rozengarten, two Israelis in America that longed for the food they grew up with. billion in 2021, and then reach $192.16

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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Enter Omaha, Nebraska-based Breeze , the company Nabity started in 2019 with Cody Leach to enable individuals to go online and complete in 10 minutes the application process to receive a personalized quote for either disability insurance or critical illness insurance.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

New York-based Acorns had last raised more than three years ago — a $105 million Series E round in January of 2019 at an $860 million valuation. Alex reported that from 2019 to 2020, Acorns grew 61%, from $44 million in revenue to $71 million. billion SPAC with Pioneer Merger Corp. in favor of an eventual traditional IPO.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 15, 2023

The investment comes from notable participants, including the Dart Family Office and Airbus Ventures. The successful funding round will enable ZES to expand its reach and enhance its position as a key player in the industry. Register Singaporean deep tech startup Zero-Error Systems (ZES) successfully raises $7.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

The round was led by ProBatus Capital, a venture firm backed by Prudential Financial, with participation from Cathay Innovation and returning investors Insignia Venture Partners, ATM Capital and Hustle Fund. Other venture-backed insurtech startups tapping into this demand include Fuse , PasarPolis and Qoala.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 20, 2023

The funding was co-led by iGlobe Partners and SIG Venture Capital, with participation from Pavilion Capital and Qualgro. Accredify was founded in 2019 and initially provided solutions to the education sector for issuing verifiable qualifications.

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