TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

“Investors are pouring money into Latin America’s logistics and shipping businesses,” our former colleague Jon Shieber wrote in 2019. In February 2019, the Mexican startup was just graduating from Y Combinator, and in Shieber’s words, “sett[ing] itself up to be the Flexport of Latin America.”

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Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 30, 2023

TABLE OF CONTENTS Bits v atoms It’s important to recognize that while the impact that generative AI can have on “bits” is substantial—since generative AI can “manipulate” those bits very easily—we’re probably too early to see a massive opportunity in “atoms” businesses. As technology continues to improve, the answer is an unequivocal “yes.”

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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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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 13, 2019

Last year, startups raised the most capital in history, even adjusting for inflation. Would you like that Series B from an opportunity fund, an SPV funded by direct LP investment or from a third part? Startup valuation have become much more quantitative. That was the “industry.” Founders can crowdfund.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Register The South Korea Ministry of SMEs and Startups, in collaboration with the Korea Startup Forum, is set to host the highly anticipated “COMEUP 2023,” set to take place from November 8 to 10 at the renowned Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) in Seoul.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Much of this can trickle down into the startup ecosystem. Maybe it will be 2019, or 2020 — or even 2021. On top of this, the cost of bringing projects online has fallen, it’s become more fashionable to play the startup game, and so forth. I am expecting a downturn at some point.

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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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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 31, 2023

Register Indonesian digital bank Superbank , supported by Grab, Singtel, and Emtek Group, is collaborating with Singapore’s Genesis Alternative Ventures to offer a financing package of $40 million for startups in Indonesia. This initiative will primarily focus on startups in the series B and series C funding stages.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 3, 2019

Santoro attended the 2019 Startup Grind Global as an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) ambassador and mentor. After the Startup Grind Global conference, he took time to reflect on the lessons he learned from the many early-stage entrepreneurs he spoke with. There is no end to ideas in a world where there is opportunity.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The startup company recently received $2 million in seed funding, aiming to further assist Vietnamese small fashion brands bring their designs to life. Vietnamese Startup Company Inflow Secures $2 Million in Seed Funding The Vietnamese fashion industry may soon expect another big game change from the supply chain platform, Inflow.

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Revolution

JANUARY 19, 2021

Part I) Cities are Like Startups Cities are like startups. For example, there is much talk about the “great acceleration” of trends like e-commerce and telehealth, which are driving tremendous momentum and success for well-positioned startups in industries like retail and healthcare. not just a select one or two?—?who

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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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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. With its innovative model for empowering rural women and youth, IndiVillage introduces balance to India’s ecosystem—where cities tend to grow exponentially while rural villages have few economic opportunities. “We

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

This January, Germany’s largest vaccine maker BioNTech announced that it had agreed to acquire Tunisian-born and London-headquartered AI startup InstaDeep for up to £562 million, including a performance-tied £200 million tranche investment. In 2019, InstaDeep raised an $8.5 First, when completed (at $682 million, adjusted in U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

As startups in Africa continue to grow and raise money at a ridiculous pace, so too will their cap tables expand. Most African startups’ bulk of VC money is from foreign investors, making it imperative for African startups to incorporate abroad, especially in the U.S. Nigerian investment platform Chaka secures $1.5M

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Edtech startup Nerdy , which owns the popular tutoring business Varsity Tutors, is seeking to become a public company through a special purpose acquisition vehicle, otherwise known as a SPAC. Nerdy will merge with TPG Pace Tech Opportunities (NYSE: PACE), a publicly traded SPAC since 2015. Will they come to startups next?

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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

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. The CEO also sees a longer-term opportunity with robotaxi fleets. Ventures L.P.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

to “scale given the market opportunity.” Image Credits: ProsperOps Lots of cloud optimization startups claim to do the same, like Sync Computing. He claims that the startup currently has “several hundred” customers and that it’s been profitable and debt-free since Q4 2020. ” “H.I.G.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

Investing in artificial intelligence (AI) startups is the latest bandwagon VCs are piling onto. This continues the firm’s strategy from its first fund which raised $15 million and started deploying in 2019. “I would say that money trickled in a lot more strongly in 2019 when I raised Fund I,” Winfield said.

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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. EdgeQ , Kneron , and Hailo are among the dozens of upstarts vying for customers, the last of which nabbed $136 million in October as it doubles down on new opportunities.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Even in a non-hell year, running a successful startup is a tremendous lift. It’s not a fun task, but it seems worthwhile to commemorate the startups that have closed up shop over the past 12 months. The startup even returned some of its $75.5 We’ve put this list together for several years now. Atrium (2017-2020).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

So it makes sense that more and more startups are cropping up to provide tools for creators — it’s an opportunity to cash in on a growing market, and savvy entrepreneurs want to make money. Some might actually be pretty predatory. Fourthwall had a good answer.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 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.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

Specifically, the São Paulo-based firm has closed on Kaszek Ventures VI, a $540 million early-stage fund and Kaszek Ventures Opportunity-III (KVO-III), a $435 million vehicle for later stage investments. In recent years, there has been an explosion of global investor interest in Latin American startups. billion in capital.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 26, 2024

It was his mobile productivity startup Acompli (later acquired by Microsoft) which first caught my attention. This applies to the decisions that people make about future opportunities as well as the way they talk about and derive wisdom from their past experiences. Do they ever really know what they’re getting into?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

.” For example, summer reservation volume in the United States is 282% higher than in summer 2020, and even 32% higher than summer 2019. summer reservations are up 180% from last year (though down 19% from 2019). The startup also plans to continue building out its marketplace of third-party integrations. In the U.K.,

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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

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In 2019 alone, companies founded by Russian-speaking entrepreneurs were sold to U.S. Our funds at Leta have also supported startups acquired by international firms, including the sale of Bright Box HK to Zurich Insurance Group in 2017 and WeWork’s acquisition of sales and marketing platform Unomy. A mine of opportunities.

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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. The opportunity appears to be there. We will focus on the smaller software startups (e.g. Not that many and not nearly enough.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

Zeni , a Palo Alto fintech company providing real-time financial services data to venture-backed startups, raised $34 million in Series B funding led by Elevation Capital. million in total since it was co-founded in 2019 by twin brothers Swapnil Shinde and Snehal Shinde. I believe we have the opportunity to build a large company.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

Fintech startup StudentFinance — which allows educational institutions to offer success-based financing for students — has raised a $5.3 The startup, which launched at the beginning of 2020, provides the tech back end for institutions to offer flexible payment plans in the form of ISAs (income-share agreements).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

IHH Healthcare also made an investment into the startup, without disclosing the amount. Founded in 2019, Intellect’s markets now include Malaysia, Singapore, India and Hong Kong. IHH Healthcare will work with Intellect to develop and customize digital mental health programs for its patients, corporate clients and staff.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Africa, 15 November 2021 – Deep Dive Africa, an initiative by Impact Hub and the GrowthAfrica Foundation, is back for the second year of connecting early-stage investors and African startups. Deep Dive Africa 2019 - Pitch day. Investors will enjoy a tour of the startup ecosystem in each of these cities.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

Lagos and Toronto-based mobility startup Plentywaka has raised a $1.2 The company says it has fully acquired Ghanaian mobility startup Stabus, but declined to comment on the acquisition price. Since going live in September 2019, Plentywaka says it has acquired over 80,000 users while completing up to half a million rides.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

The year 2021 saw more and bigger deals closed in Africa, as tech startups across the continent raised close to $5 billion. This amount was double the previous year’s investment, and nine times what was raised five years ago, an indication of how much the startup scene has transformed over the last few years. Opportunities for growth.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

A Canadian startup working at the cutting edge of satellite imaging has raised $4.5 I’ve covered Wyvern in the past, including when the startup participated in incubator Creative Destruction Lab (CDL)’s academic conference-like demo day back in 2019. million across a combination of a $2.25 million seed round, and $2.25

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