TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

Multi-asset social investment network and Robinhood competitor eToro has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Gatsby — a fintech startup which also aimed to go head to head against Robinhood — for $50 million in a cash and common stock deal. million at the end of 2019, 17.5 Scaling our U.S.

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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. The program’s name reflects its focus on five pillars for startup success: Customer, Achievement, Recognition, Education and Social. Are you a founder or start-up owner who is ready to advance to the next stage of growth?

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 31, 2023

Register Vuihoc , an ed-tech platform catering to K-12 Vietnamese students, recently secured a significant US$6 million investment in a Series A funding round led by TNB Aura. Amidst the fluctuations in the world economy, Vietnam’s EdTech sector remains an attractive destination for solid investments.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Register Singapore’s Jungle Ventures has announced the launch of First Cheque@Jungle , a new program aimed at investing in startups during their pre-seed and seed stages. The First Cheque program plans to leverage the expertise of experienced founders from Jungle Ventures’ current and former portfolio startups.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

Despite a pandemic that sparked a global recession, 2020 was still a record year for venture capital investments into American startups. billion into domestic startups last year, or around $428 million for each day of the year. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. But while the U.S. In the U.S., Not really.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 30, 2018

My predictions for 2019. Ok, let’s move on…for 2019’s prediction, I tried to keep it simple and cook up big questions that are on most peoples’ minds, and offer my two cents on them. As to 2019…here are the big FAQs out there: When will companies start going public? Not in 2019. I predict: soon!

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Source Link

APRIL 14, 2021

Despite an overall decline in entrepreneurship in the United States, women are still responsible for the launch of a large portion of business startups in recent years. in 2019 , and even less makes its way to minority women. Plenty of initiative. of venture capital funds went to women-owned businesses in the U.S. Finding new markets.

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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

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 digital logistics market is estimated to climb to $46.5

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500

DECEMBER 16, 2019

This year we dove headfirst into the rise of corporate venture capital, the changing nature of venture capital education, and the important task of startup ecosystem building. And in 2019, 500 decided to dive into CVC behavior in an unprecedented way. And in 2019, 500 decided to dive into CVC behavior in an unprecedented way.

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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

JUNE 30, 2021

Peanut , the maker of a social networking app for women, is entering into the investing space with today’s launch of a microfund called StartHER. ” Peanut argues there’s inherent bias in assuming that every startup founder has access to what are, essentially, wealthy friends or family who can spare a little startup capital.

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Paul G. Silva

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

If RVI failed then our region would have lots its only active angel group – a huge potential blow to local startups. I spent the last 3 months of 2019 conducting intensive customer discovery, interviewing RVI’s top members, past and present. We’re investing in more deals than we’ve ever invested in before.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2021

Pipo Saude , a startup that developed a platform that sells and manages healthcare benefits for Brazilian companies, has raised $20 million in a Series A round of funding. Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital led the round, marking the first time the New York-based venture firm has led an investment in a Brazilian startup.

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500

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Under no circumstances should any of the below content be construed as legal, tax or investment advice from 500 Startups or any of its affiliates. Alluva at 500 Startups: What it was really like being a part of Batch 25 In March of 2019, Alluva was accepted into Batch 25 of 500 Startups. What Alluva is.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 17, 2019

It’s that time of year, where I — as a committee of one judge, but now in consultation with my Haystack colleagues Ian and Aashay — select one startup in the tech ecosystem that “broke out” and has the makings of an even larger outcome should things continue to go right. Why did Superhuman get the nod? This was not the case just a decade ago.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

AMP Robotics , a Denver, Colorado-based startup creating robotic systems that can automatically sort recyclable material, today announced that it extended its Series C round to $99 million, thanks to an investment from Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund. billion in 2019, per the Department of Energy (DoE).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In 2018, Carbon , a Nigerian fintech startup, made its financials public for the first time. Although typical for foreign private startups, it’s almost an anomaly in Africa. At the time, the German investment outfit was a founding shareholder in the African-based unicorn. billion (~$241.35 billion (~$63 million), up 9.1%

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2020

billion) after attracting a $200 million (£150 million) investment from Tokyo Gas, for a 9.7% Australia’s Origin Energy is also set to take a stake in Octopus for $50 million (£37 million) following a larger investment in April when Origin bought a 20% stake. by 50% (renewables in Japan in 2019 accounted for 18.9% in the U.K.),

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2021

Darwinbox, which operates a cloud-based human resource management platform, has raised $15 million in a new financing round as the Indian startup looks to further expand in the country and Southeast Asian markets. This is one of Salesforce Ventures’ rare investments in Asia.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 24, 2023

Register Startup Island TAIWAN, an initiative backed by Taiwan’s National Development Council, recently joined forces with domestic venture capitalists and listed companies to present a significant event showcasing the prowess of Taiwanese digital tech startups.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 23, 2022

The investment agreement inked between LINE Southeast Asia Corp. The Asia Pacific baby care products market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of around 8% from 2021 to 2026 to reach a market size of US$48 billion in 2026, from US$28 billion in 2019. trillion. “We

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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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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 13, 2019

My answer was: it’s become incredibly sophisticated along three dimensions: diversity of product offering, pricing sophistication, and efficiency of investment processes. Last year, startups raised the most capital in history, even adjusting for inflation. Startup valuation have become much more quantitative.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

The company, which has built a payment platform intended for gaming platforms, virtual world publishers, mobile application developers and NFT providers, said Tuesday it has secured another strategic investment from its returning backer, J.P Morgan Payments, and new investor Dunamu , a Seoul-based operator of crypto exchange Upbit.

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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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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2021

billion, money that it will be using to back early-stage startups, as well as growth rounds for more mature companies. Notably, the 38-year-old Silicon Valley-based venture firm is doubling down on global investing. billion global “Leaders” fund that is focused on later-stage investing that Accel closed in December.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Though some businesses may never be truly sustainable, a venture firm in Seoul argues that emerging climate-tech startups will help big manufacturers do better overall. I spoke with Sopoong chief executive Max Sang-Yeop Han , a serial entrepreneur who joined Sopoong in 2016 and acquired the firm in 2019, to learn about the VC’s plans.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

It’s now raised a $5 million Series A round led by Genesis Investments, with participation from TMT Investments, TerraVC and existing investors Flashpoint and Misha Lyalin. The Ukraine-based startup will now enter new markets and strengthen its positions in Poland, Russia, Spain and Latin America. million).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

This undisclosed investment is Google’s third from the $50 million Africa Investment Fund targeted at the continent’s early- and growth-stage startups, which the company CEO Sundar Pichai announced last October. The fund is part of Google’s plan to invest $1 billion in “tech-led initiatives” over the next five years.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

A hallmark of that spirit is quite visible these days in the country’s flourishing startup ecosystem, which has expanded rapidly in the past few years, to say the least. However, the global slowdown has impacted startups’ growth in the country, just like everywhere else in the world. How has your investment strategy changed?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Now, the Los Angeles-based startup Spotter wants to help creators scale their channels faster by offering them large sums of up-front cash in exchange for the future ad revenue from their existing uploads. Since its launch in 2019, some of YouTube’s biggest creators like MrBeast and Like Nastya have struck deals with Spotter.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

On Friday, Tiger Global said it is backing their startup, CreditBook , to help address those challenges. 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. “We

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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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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The figure represents an 80% increase compared to the amount raised for its previous fund, VVSEAI Fund IV, in 2019. VVSEAI Fund V’s substantial corpus includes a dedicated co-investment envelope of $50 million, which will be utilized to invest alongside the primary fund in startups led by women founders.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

from 2010 to 2019. According to the report, African developers created 40% more open source repositories on the software engineering marketplace in 2019 than in 2018 — recording a higher growth percentage than any other continent globally. million jobs due to Google’s $1 billion investment in the continent.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

5 investors discuss Boston’s resilient tech ecosystem Boston’s university-to-startup pipeline defies downturn to grow and diversify In order to build a startup culture, a city or region needs some key elements in place – like an innovation engine to drive startup ideas. Register for the free virtual event here.

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