Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

If nothing else, the 2020 pandemic has shown everybody—particularly business owners and entrepreneurs—the value of being prepared and ready to pivot. But I’ve long been a believer in the stark benefits that flexible working environments enable. Cash and capital is oxygen, but the best kind of capital are my relationships.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

NFX and existing backers Pear and Mexico-based Wollef (formely known as Jaguar Ventures) doubled down on their investment, which values Melonn “in the neighborhood” of $100 million post-money and brings the Bogota-based startup’s total raised to $24 million since its November 2020 inception.

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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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Dream It

APRIL 23, 2019

For example, voice-powered ecommerce reached approximately $2 billion in 2017 and Gartner predicts that about 30% of web browsing will happen via voice (and without a screen) by 2020. Streamlining Patient & Provider Communication Via Voice-Enabled Applications Patient satisfaction impacts providers’ financial performance.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 27, 2020

I argued that “software companies with software margins” are better businesses than tech companies that are not really software companies but a tech-enabled version of some other business. USV TEAM POSTS: Albert Wenger — Apr 18, 2020 A Plan for Rapidly Ramping COVID19 Testing.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2023

Reach Capital, one of the first venture firms to focus exclusively on edtech, closed its last investment vehicle during an unprecedented boom within tech. I think the fact that edtech may not be in the news so much anymore, it’s a good thing,” says Esteban Sosnik, partner at Reach Capital.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 22, 2023

Cocoon Capital, an investment firm from the same country, led the round. This platform enables construction companies, operators, and contractors to identify the most effective construction plans by leveraging proprietary optimization algorithms.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

billion won) Series C round led by Bain Capital with participation from Goldman Sachs. South Korea has passed the first law in the world dedicated to digital lending, ‘The Marketplace Lending Act’, in August 2020 to regulate marketplace lenders, protecting P2P consumers. million (75.9 PeopleFund.

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Dream It

AUGUST 6, 2020

Today, the company announced a $10M Series A financing round led by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and digital health fund Heal Capital , with participation from existing investors Karma Ventures, Inovo Venture Partners, and Dreamit Ventures. The new capital places total funding to date at $15 million.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

with $15 million to Prove It The venture capital world has started firing up a few cylinders again and looking for businesses that it believes will help us all succeed in ways that resonate with new ways of working as we begin to return to work. And then came March 2020 and events globally were being cancelled. Derek founded Bevy ?—?a

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Sales in this area topped $100 billion in 2020 , driven by the 48 million dogs and cats that were adopted over the past three years. The big story in 2020 was that everyone needed telehealth services for themselves, and we saw that transfer to pets and then exacerbated by the industry,” he added. Pets are big business.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Bengaluru-based artificial intelligence SaaS voice automation company Skit, formerly known as Vernacular.ai, developed its AI-based voice automation platform VIVA, short for Vernacular Intelligent Voice Assistant, which enables corporations to automate 90% of their call center operations powered by Natural Language Understanding (NLU) technology.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

NewView Capital led the round with participation from existing investors Blackbird Ventures and W23, and new investor AirTree Ventures. In addition to product development, the new funding enables Eucalyptus to build toward being a major player in the telehealth industry. Telehealth platform Eucalyptus raised a $22.3

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

A portion of the capital — $10 million — was debt, while the rest was a Series A equity tranche led by Georgian Capital Partners. The] turnkey, end-to-end platform is pre-configured with hundreds of APIs enabled.” million in capital. ” To date, Savana has raised $54.2

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 23, 2023

Register SKS Capital , a venture capital and private equity firm based in Shanghai and Taipei, has announced its strategic investment of $5 million in Grace , Korea’s largest aggregator of international health and beauty brands. from 2020 to 2027.

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Dream It

MAY 18, 2020

With 85% quarter-on-quarter and 403% year-on-year enrollment growth in Q1 2020, Wellth plans to use this new capital to support rapid scaling to address larger and broader populations of patients. link] — Wellth (@wellthapp) May 6, 2020 ?Market Wellth graduated from Dreamit’s Healthtech program in 2016.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

" #startups @fredwilson blog fodder [link] — Claudia Lamb (@cloudylamb) November 23, 2020. There is more truth to that article than anyone in the venture capital industry wants to admit. "Building a solid business, but the V.C.s wanted fantasy… the hope that one lucky wager would more than offset many bad bets."

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 12, 2025

December 20, 2024 ) Applications for Delawares fifth annual Startup302 funding competition will be accepted January 2 through 26 from technology-enabled startups with high-growth potential and at least one founding team member from an underrepresented group.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

Global venture capital firms are pouring money into the semiconductor startups developing the next generation of chips. Sunghyun Park , a former quant developer at Morgan Stanley in New York, launched artificial intelligence semiconductor startup Rebellions with four co-founders to enter this red-hot industry in 2020.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2021

In 2020, innovators and investors were forced to stand still, and witness cracks, fractures and rubble in society in a way like never before. Take trends like the rise of building in public or the unbundling of venture capital. Or remote work’s shift from enabling communication to now needing to enable passive and active collaboration.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

The total investment includes pre-seeding capital raised in 2020. Vicente Zavarce, Yummy’s founder and CEO, launched the company in 2020 and is currently part of Y Combinator’s summer 2021 cohort. We also already have exclusivity with 60% of the food delivery marketplace, which has enabled us to build a moat around the market.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The company was founded in January 2020 to make engaging with paying customers and thus building creator businesses as effortless as possible. million seed round in August 2020, and then again in February 2021 when it raised another $4 million. We profiled the NYC-based startup last year when it announced its $1.5

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Today, Cairo-based B2B e-commerce startup Capiter continues that trend by raising a $33 million Series A round. The investment was co-led by Quona Capital and MSA Capital. Capiter was launched in July 2020 by Mahmoud Nouh and Ahmed Nouh. Then for merchants, Capiter attends to three problems. The Capiter app.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

In September 2020, Halifax-based fitness data management company Kinduct was acquired by mCube. In November 2020, Newfoundland-based Verafin was acquired by Nasdaq for $2.75 Bird also pointed out that the Atlantic time zones are ideal, enabling effective communications with Europe as well as the rest of North America.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

In the venture capital industry, “unicorn” is a term used to describe a privately held startup company with a company valuation of over $1 billion. For i2E, this crazy year of 2020 marks the year of our first potential unicorn. As of August of 2020, Crunchbase estimated the valuation of Alkami to be between $500,000 and $1 billion.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

The company claims to be the first supermarket in Mexico with no physical store that enables customers to buy groceries directly from its website, or an app, and Jüsto will deliver the order to the customer’s location of choice. billion in 2020. Meanwhile, the online grocery industry in the U.S. is poised to be a $187.7

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MARCH 18, 2020

The largest early-stage investor in the region, Ben Franklin provides investment capital and business support services to emerging tech-entrepreneurs and small manufacturers located in central and northern Pennsylvania. STATE COLLEGE, PA – Every year, dozens of PA startups get their start with Ben Franklin Technology Partners.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

“Our conviction that digital assets are the future of finance has been vindicated by our client base, which grew 10 times year over year in 2020 and has more than doubled since the end of 2020.”. Bain Capital Ventures Partner Stefan Cohen agrees. Fintechs could see $100 billion of liquidity in 2021.

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Revolution

APRIL 6, 2021

Casted leverages audio and video podcasting as the core of an innovative Amplified Marketing Platform enabling B2B enterprises to drive brand awareness, thought-leadership, sales lead generation, and customer engagement strategies.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

Rali_cap , an early-stage venture capital firm focused on emerging markets fintech, has launched a $30 million fund. Rali_cap was first a collective before a fund, Hayden Simmons , the general partner who launched the firm in 2020, told TechCrunch in an interview. It expects to achieve a second close by the end of June.

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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. In 2020, all five countries had representatives in the accelerator. Here are the startups in the 8th cohort.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

” During the height of the lockdowns in South Africa, sentiment across SMEs owners on a scale of -100 to 100 dropped to an all-time low of -12 in Q2 2020, according to Yoco’s small business pulse monitor. According to the company, the number of small businesses that were fully cashless jumped 300% from March to July 2020.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

It announced Monday that it made its first acquisition in Tipser , a Swedish-based technology company enabling direct checkout on any digital surface. San Francisco-based Bolt is fresh off of raising $393 million in Series D funding in October, bringing total capital raised to date to $600 million.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Merritt Hummer is a partner at Bain Capital Ventures, where she invests in the fintech, e-commerce and proptech sectors. Startups involved in B2B e-commerce such as Faire and Mirakl have burst out of the gates in 2020. Merritt Hummer. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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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. Last November, we surveyed 13 of the top robotics-focused VCs to find out which areas of robotics are exciting them most going into 2020.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

African capital markets exist in silos, as various exchanges within the continent are often inaccessible to investors outside their home countries. Not only does this limit investors’ access to high-growth securities, but it also limits access to capital that has grown in leaps and bounds over the past couple of years.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

The new capital infusion gives Miro $476 million in total funding since the company was founded in 2011 by Andrey Khusid and Oleg Shardin. The last time we checked in with Miro, co-headquartered in San Francisco and Amsterdam, was in 2020 when the company raised a $50 million Series B round led by Iconiq Capital.

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