Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 7, 2024

Wiz does this by taking a modern approach to cloud security, giving companies full stack visibility into their environments on the cloud and workload layers and enabling them to identify and prioritize risks without any clunky agents. When we first spoke with Wiz, they were maniacally executing on their core product offering.

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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. For posterity, here are some of the more recent investments… 2022 Hubly Surgical Hubly Surgical has an advanced drill, complete with auto-stop and visual feedback, to make medical drilling safe across underserved settings.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2021

Prosus Ventures invests in industries around the world where innovation can significantly address big societal needs,” said Ashutosh Sharma, head of India Investments at Prosus Ventures, in a statement. — Harsh Upadhyay (@upadhyay_harsh1) October 13, 2020.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 26, 2021

Many small businesses’ efforts to adopt cutting-edge technology were on a slow trickle until the pandemic hit in first quarter 2020. In fact, overall digital transformation (DX) investments are expected to reach $7.8 trillion between 2020 and 2024. A Deloitte study found 43% of U.S. Defend Against Cyber-attacks. Resources.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

In March 2020, companies like Locus, 6 River Systems and Fetch were happy to jump in and help warehouses automate. Investments began flooding into robotics around this time. Slowed investments have been compounded by continued economic woes and the recent bank collapses have further shaken confidence.

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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. Andrea Grisdale, founder and CEO at IC Bellagio.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

billion industry this year, startups in the e-commerce enablement software space are looking to carve out a niche in this huge market. Because raised $650,000 in angel investment last year, which enabled the company to grow to over 900 merchants and 150 paying customers. With global e-commerce sales poised to be a $5.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

The brothers had dreams of finding their own financial freedom through investing in real estate, but didn’t have enough individual capital to go into business alone. “On It also offers tools including a business ledger for groups to track their investment performance. . The Tribevest dashboard Image Credits: Tribevest.

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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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Dream It

AUGUST 6, 2020

The investment will be used for platform R&D to further enhance patient triage and symptom checking features as well as clinical decision support analysis – including intake collection, differential diagnostics and lab test interpretation – and to expand operations in Germany and the US, where Infermedica currently has one office.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

they could invest in entrepreneurial communities and the best founders would then bring in new founders. And then came March 2020 and events globally were being cancelled. Ryan Smith, the founder of Qualtrics, also invested and has joined the board of directors. It’s no wonder they’ve both performed so well. And it would be?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 18, 2021

The PPP enabled me to keep a small but scrappy team; we dug deep to become the experts on virtual and hybrid events. We ended up doing over 200 virtual events in 2020 and finished the year with US$1M in profit?which which is a miracle number given the circumstances. The gym, wine clubs, streaming platforms?these

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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. Or remote work’s shift from enabling communication to now needing to enable passive and active collaboration. On the diversity front, 2020 may prove a tipping point.

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2023

British International Investment (BII), a DFI from the UK, told TechCrunch recently that it will deploy $500 million into startups by the end of 2026, and half of that amount has been earmarked for African tech companies. The organization has invested in eight African startups since 2020.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

-based Susa Ventures led this latest tranche of investment. Other investors include TLcom Capital (the sole investor from its $1 million pre-seed round in 2020), newly joined Accenture Ventures and some angel investors. million in two rounds and the company will use the investment to expand its data infrastructure across Nigeria. .

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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

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The transaction announced Tuesday is part of a complex deal that includes Uber investing $75 million into Joby and an expanded partnership between the two companies. The $75 million investment comes in addition to a previously undisclosed $50 million investment made as part of Joby’s Series C financing round in January 2020 , Uber said.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

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. billion invested across 170 deals, per PitchBook. . by the end of this year, Park continued. . SambaNova raises $676M at a $5.1B

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Revolution

JULY 21, 2021

Welcoming Place Exchange to the Revolution Ventures Portfolio Today, Revolution Ventures is thrilled to announce an investment in Place Exchange , the leading platform for programmatic out-of-home (OOH) advertising. Ted and I have con-invested together for nearly two decades. So, what exactly is Out-of-Home Advertising?

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

For i2E, this crazy year of 2020 marks the year of our first potential unicorn. i2E made a concept investment through the OCAST Technology Business Finance Program (which iThryv repaid) early in the company’s life, and then in June of 2009, we invested again from the Oklahoma Seed Capital Fund (OSCF). And so we are grateful.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

In January 2020, the company was in discussions with Whole Foods about launching a pilot of its meals in a few stores. In fact, not having much business enabled Deerman and Chan to go heads-down and revamp their business, including updating the menu and packaging and going through U.S. It turned out to be the right one.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

While companies initially adopted solutions for employee safety, rapid response and short-term air cover, they are now shifting their focus to long-term, strategic investments that empower growth and streamline operations.

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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. ” Pando makes a best effort to automate processes around the supply chain.

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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

JANUARY 28, 2021

In 2020, all five countries had representatives in the accelerator. First off, from Kenya, Koa enables users to save and invest, gaining control over their finances. Lami is an insurance platform and API that enables more individuals and businesses to access insurance coverage. Here are the startups in the 8th cohort.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 17, 2018

Another study by Gartner says by 2020, 85% of customer interaction will be managed without a human. AI-enabled analytics for crucial customer insights AI can play a critical role in providing companies with actionable insights by feeding intelligence into CRM, marketing automation, and other key operational tools.

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HPA

MARCH 21, 2024

HPA is excited to announce our investment in Fuel Me ’s $18M Series A Round , which was co-led by Pritzker Group Venture Capital and Tribeca Venture Partners and includes co-investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Interplay Venture Capital, and FJ Labs. Fuel Me is a first-of-its-kind platform that revolutionizes fuel procurement and management.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Local broadband providers offer greater access to achieve economic prosperity Rural economies and communities benefit from access to fiber broadband, boosting entrepreneurship, income, and business investments. Researchers analyzed data from 2020-2022, primarily post-pandemic. communities with access to basic broadband services, 3.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Israel’s startup ecosystem raised record amounts of funding and produced 19 IPOs in 2020, despite the pandemic. Here are the investors in their own words, for any TechCrunch reader who is interested in hiring, investing or founding a company in the country. What trends are you most excited about investing in, generally?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2022

Gartner projects that global spending on cloud services is expected to reach over $482 billion in 2022, up from $313 billion in 2020. For one, the cloud makes data accessible from anywhere with an internet connection, enabling the seamless collaboration necessary in a hybrid work environment.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

We’ve seen the market evolving over the last 10 years, and what started as an idea to bring a whiteboard into a browser has enabled us to understand the kind of value we can bring to organizations of all sizes,” he added. We aim to increase the pace of innovation, and that will be a big area of investment. Image Credits: Andrey Khusid.

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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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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

The two-year-old VC fund invests in B2B and API-first fintechs across Africa, Latin America and South Asia at pre-seed and seed stages. 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.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

The company, which enables underbanked customers in select African markets to access a broad range of products and services without collateral or a guarantor, announced today that it has raised $75 million. Generation Investment Management and Broadscale Group led the growth equity round. . growth of new customers from 2020 to 2021.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

Tech investments in emerging markets have been in full swing over the past couple of years and their ecosystems have thrived as a result. Some of these markets like Africa, Latin America, and India, have comprehensive reports by publications and firms on trends and investments in their individual regions. Such a task is Herculean.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 18, 2023

As its first strategic move in Malaysia, Xendit has announced that it is investing in local fintech player, Payex, which is a Bank Negara Malaysia licensed payment gateway provider. “We The company offer of a one-stop payment infrastructure that enables businesses to scale rapidly.

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