AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Register Startup accelerator Archipelago Labs (A-Labs) has launched a $10 million Web3 fund to invest and accelerate the growth of the most promising startups and talents in the Philippines ’ Web3 ecosystem. Since its founding in 2022, A-Labs has been led by founders with crypto and business backgrounds.

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Revolution

JULY 21, 2022

The Results To-Date: Meati went live with its first DTC offering in March 2022, which sold out in 2.5 The company’s cutlets made their retail debut in Sprouts in July 2022, and products are currently on the menu in 11 restaurants, including Colorado-based fried chicken chain, Birdcall. The funds will: ? Giga Ranch?—?capable

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Like the startup ecosystem itself, accelerators change with time. Y Combinator, perhaps the best-known startup accelerator, has also evolved. Let’s see where Y Combinator’s most promising young tech companies come from to get a loose barometer of where the accelerator is finding the most intriguing founders to back.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

SparkLabs Korea , a Seoul-based seed to early-stage accelerator, held a demo Day on Thursday for its 19th cohort of companies. The latest demo day marks its tenth year after SparkLabs launched its accelerator program in December 2012. and Asia. . Its monthly subscription fee is ~$20. Its service SmartBox allows for thermal management.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 26, 2024

In 2022, as LLMs took the world by storm, the market was trying to navigate the right way to build solutions on top of the many models becoming available. Today, we are excited to announce we’ve led their Series A. Trey kept the team focused and spent months obsessing over novel applications of new open source models.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 28, 2021

2021 marked the second year of COVID and like other crises, the pandemic accelerated change, especially in technology pushing many technologies like SaaS, video conferencing, crypto/web3 deeper into the Perez deployment cycle. VCs invested $10b per year. Every year I make a list of predictions and score last year’s predictions.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

We named this summit after a report we wrote with Pitchbook at the end of 2021 to explore the impact of the pandemic on investment patterns. However, by 2022 (with most pandemic restrictions in the rear view mirror and financial markets facing challenges), investors began gravitating towards perceived safe havens, as reflected in the data.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

One of the ways that those pots of cash are being invested is through venture capital, which means the money flows to the coasts — New York, Boston, Silicon Valley. For the past decade, Gener8tor has been working to shift that by spinning up accelerators in local communities that have money but are underserved in terms of startup support. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2021

As Southeast Asia starts to boom, an accelerator backed by Silicon Valley execs jumps in. Here are a few sectors that took off in 2021, and are worth keeping an eye on in 2022: Investment apps. Some examples include Indonesia-based crypto-focused Pintu , robo-advisor Bibit , Ajaib and Pluang , and Singapore-based Syfe.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 4, 2022

On today’s episode of the Business Beat, Jeff highlights a few companies mentioned by Cronicle Tech News as hot tech companies to watch in 2022 in the Great Lakes region. Top Detroit Startups and Tech Companies to Watch in 2022. for the WJR Business Beat. Listeners outside of the Detroit area can listen live HERE.

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In 2017, we partnered with iconic leaders in American business to turn the thesis we developed on the road — that great companies can start and scale anywhere when given a chance — into an investment vehicle. In the last decade, we’ve socialized several Rise of the Rest-isms to describe investments that check those boxes.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

When Female Invest launched in 2019, it did so with the goal of creating a community where women who wanted to invest in the stock market, but weren’t sure where to start, could gain the knowledge and confidence to take the plunge. Now, its users will be able to do so all within the Female Invest platform.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

For the first time, the sector attracted over 1,100 unique investors in 2022, which in turn resulted in a record fundraising haul of $6.5 In Africa, incubators, accelerators, angels and seed investors easily outnumber larger funds — simply because it’s much harder to raise a large fund here. billion, according to data from Partech.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 27, 2023

South Korea’s largest accelerator program– the K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) is the unique opportunity for global startups to enter the flourishing market of Asia. The 2023 edition of the accelerator, running from July 25 to November 10, will focus on deep tech startups.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 4, 2023

And with lockdowns now a thing of the past, we predict travel to also increase from 2022 levels which is a great sign for the industry and for business. Travel is going to be one of the biggest investments companies will make, and it will be well worth it. Accelerated digital transformation. Here’s what I see: 1.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Last year, round sizes for climate tech startups quadrupled, with more than 600 investments totaling over $40 billion. The start of 2022 shows no signs of slowing, with more startups jumping into the fray to tackle one of humanity’s biggest challenges. What is your climate tech investment thesis in H1 2022?

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2022

Worth around a fifth of all venture dollars invested last year, fintech startups raised nearly unfathomable sums of capital but with good reason. New Q2 2022 data from CB Insights and PitchBook lay bare fintech’s retreat. So it is not a huge surprise that fintech had a big part to play in the venture boom that is now behind us.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 13, 2024

in funding and carbon removal deals support pilot underway in Brazil Some of the biggest names in climate, technology, and investing are behind a bold plan to scale CO2 removal using an innovative technology called Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW). Terradot, a climate tech startup founded at Stanford, announced its launch with $58.2

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The acceleration of venture capital and the burgeoning check sizes in the last few years has led to a decline in traditional due diligence. The pace at which deals were done increased, and the time to reach what VCs love to call “conviction” fell sharply. This compressed diligence cycles, leading to less intrusive vetting.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 18, 2022

Venture capitalists have continued to invest at similar prices & similar round sizes in the most sought after companies. 220b in dry powder (dollars VCs have raised but not yet invested) will buoy valuations higher than expected. Market prices accelerate faster with single-winner auctions. Publics are down 70%.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Caroline Hogan Contributor Share on Twitter Caroline Hogan is senior director of vendor marketing at Gartner Digital Markets , where she helps software providers accelerate growth. But businesses are changing where, how and why they invest in technology.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 15, 2021

So, what’s to come in 2022? So don’t just look at “sustainability” as the new watchword in business trends; the rise of environmentally friendly products and services will accelerate over time. That’s why even small businesses should consider investing in encryption for internal communications. Shutterstock.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 7, 2023

This round of funding has gained support from Contents Technologies, Transcend Capital Partners, and existing backers Investible and eWTP Tech Innovation Fund. This was followed by a seed round in April 2022, generating $2.1 million in fresh funding, a mix of debt and equity. million, as detailed in the official announcement.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Daimler’s trucks division has invested in lidar developer Luminar as part of a broader partnership to produce autonomous trucks capable of navigating highways without a human driver behind the wheel. Luminar will become a publicly traded company through its merger with Gores, which is expected to close in late 2020.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2022

India, which has doubled its pool of unicorns to over 100 in the past two years, has attracted over $75 billion in investments from tech giants Google, Meta and Amazon and venture funds Sequoia, Tiger Global, SoftBank, Alpha Wave, Lightspeed and Accel in the past half decade. Swaroop’s presentation from 2014. Take crypto, for instance.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Tackle says it plans to use its new funding to accelerate the execution of its product roadmap, scale its go-to-market (GTM) teams, expand its global reach, and continue to innovate. Fellow VC firm Battery Ventures, which to our knowledge hasn’t invested in Tackle, also backs up that view.

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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. Second, the program offers an initial investment without imposing minimum ownership criteria.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 20, 2023

as of December 31, 2022, according to the FDIC. Strategic investment fund BankTech Ventures invests in companies that are developing innovative technologies that enhance the ability of community banks to serve their customers. The Fund just announced their investment commitment of $13.5

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

But today we’re highlighting the demo day for a new wave of crypto projects and teams who participated in the latest cohort for Alliance DAO, a web3 accelerator and builder community. The beta app will be released on iOS and Windows in August 2022. Company name: Lava. Founders: Yair Cleper, Gil Binder. Stage: Seed.

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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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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

From 2003-2022 the River Valley Investors operated as a traditional angel group, investing in nearly 100 startups. The company pitched to River Valley Investors in April 2022 and RVI invested one week later. KNOX Knox created Frictionless Ownership to make owning investment property as simple as owning a share of stock.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

In November, we reached out to marketers to learn how they would spend a $25,000 budget in Q1 2022. The advice ranged from going full force on one channel to investing in a copywriter and making video content. Imagine you have a $75,000 budget going into summer 2022. But there’s been a lot of belt tightening since then.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

However, things are moving on the legal side of the market — it appears medical cannabis still carries most of the momentum, and it is only accelerating. Investments and M&A in the sector are also being spurred by Germany’s promised legislation. Oliver Lamb , co-founder and investment manager, Óskare Capital.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 11, 2023

Register South Korea venture investment firm ‘1Billion Partners Inc. Since its launch in October 2021, the company has been actively executing multiple investments, demonstrating its dedication to fostering entrepreneurship. The firm established 1Billion Accel in 2022, a subsidiary that manages angel funds in Korea.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

Likewise, Varada co-founder and VP of R&D Roman Vainbrand notes that the combined companies will be able to “deliver the best performance and cost benefits in the analytics query market, enabling organizations to accelerate the time-to-insight, while optimizing infrastructure operations and investments.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

Magnetar contributed $111 million, with the remainder of the investment being split between Nvidia, Friedman and Gross. An Nvidia spokesperson said that the investment represents a “deepening” of its partnership with CoreWeave. Initially, CoreWeave was focused exclusively on cryptocurrency applications.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2022

While many funds are returning to more conservative check-writing , with a focus on profitability and business fundamentals, crypto remains a sector in the spotlight that attracts dedicated billion-dollar funds and investment terms that remind us more of 2021 than 2022. Yet, things are accelerating across the board in crypto.

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