Paul G. Silva

JANUARY 21, 2025

When I co-founded Valley Venture Mentors (VVM), we created this vision: “Catalyze entrepreneurs to change the economy of western Massachusetts.” We’ll dive deeper into BHAGs in a future post, but for now, know that it’s one way to turn your vision into something real and motivating.

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Prior to joining LUUM, Lawson’s 15 year career included shaping brand strategies and product development across global brands such as Apple, PayPal and Movado. Amundson serves as Vice President of Engineering, where he spearheads the development of the company’s systems for automated eyelash extension application.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Amongst these are key players in the semiconductor, consumer electronics, and defense industries, including Samsung Ventures, RTX Ventures, and In-Q-Tel, as well as other investors like Maverick Silicon, Capital TEN, and Morgan Creek Digital.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Revolution Growth’s Latest Investment in Healthcare and AI: Pathos, the Company Re-Engineering the Drug Development Process The oversubscribed $62M Series C will be used to expand the team, accelerate platform development, and advance its clinical-stage pipeline of precision oncology therapeutics.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

As part of the retail giant’s self-proclaimed mission to better address underrepresentation and technology inequities, the company announced today that it is investing up to $10 million in Brown Venture Group. billion with BIPOC and diverse businesses by 2025. Black and Latin communities were the recipients of just 2.6%

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The global financial services firm narrowed its selection down to 25 companies for its I nclusive Ventures Lab. Over the next five months, the disruptive startup companies will participate in an in-house accelerator program designed to help them develop and scale their technology further. Twelve U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Mage , developing an artificial intelligence tool for product developers to build and integrate AI into apps, brought in $6.3 million in seed funding led by Gradient Ventures. We are like Stripe for AI, making it easier for developers to put AI into apps.”. Don’t hate on low-code and no-code.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

The world of venture capital investing is a relatively small one, and relationship-based to boot. The company, founded by Samir Kaji and Hana Yang in February 2021, is developing an approach to venture capital fund investing that provides a way for investors of any size to participate. Enter Allocate.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Register Applications are now open for the 2023/24 MVP Ventures Program , a state initiative in New South Wales (NSW) designed to provide grants to early-stage startups and small to medium enterprises (SMEs) driving the commercialization of innovative products or processes.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

And so, swimming against the tides, he set up the venture studio in partnership with co-founders Irene Kiwia and Bendon Murgor. It is eyeing a pan-African presence by 2025 as it races to help build 300 companies over the next five years. The venture studio is planning on building a fund that will target startups in the growth stage. “We

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Meet Hidden Level the leading developer of technology for sensing, identifying, tracking, and analyzing radio frequency (RF) spectrum signals to help customers detect potential threats. Hidden Levels mission: to keep people safe, infrastructure secure, and communities peaceful by modernizing how we monitor low-altitude airspace.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

After all, AI is costly — Gartner predicted in 2021 that a third of tech providers would invest $1 million or more in AI by 2023 — and debugging an algorithm gone wrong threatens to inflate the development budget. million in total venture capital. With Galileo, which today emerged from stealth with $5.1

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

startup that makes it easier for housing developers, architects and construction firms to configure and design modular homes to address the ongoing housing crisis , has raised £10 million ($11.7 billion people by 2025 , as house-price growth continues to outpace income growth. Modulous , a U.K. million) in a series A round of funding.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

But if you ask the co-founders of Modular , a startup emerging from stealth today, the software used to develop it is “monolithic,” fractured into silos piled with layers of complexity. “Modular’s main competition is the mindset that dominates AI software development within Big Tech, and Big Tech itself,” Lattner said.

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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. Matt Murphy and Grace Ge, Menlo Ventures Which trends are you most excited about in construction robotics from an investing perspective?

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Having the opportunity to learn from the founders you back is by far one of the most rewarding parts of being a venture capital investor. In response, AppHarvest has plans to launch 12 large-scale greenhouses by 2025. And we would need a second planet Earth to grow the food we need if we continue as-is. and should?—?be

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

million from investors over the last few months, part of which includes a recently concluded $2 million seed round that was led by the Africa-focused venture capital firm 4DX Ventures. This is expected to grow to about 40% of the population by 2025, offering a bigger market to internet-based businesses like Wowzi.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

million Series A round by Universal Hydrogen , a Los Angeles-based startup aiming to develop hydrogen storage solutions and conversion kits for commercial aircraft. We are going to build an end-to-end hydrogen value chain for aviation by 2025.”. The race to decarbonize aviation got a boost this Earth Day with the announcement of a $20.5

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

JIC Venture Growth Investments led the Series E equity funding, with participation from Z Venture Capital , a venture investment arm of Z Holdings, Japan Post Capital and Salesforce Ventures. The latest round brings its total funding raised to $41.4 million, the company said without disclosing its valuation.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

million Series A, led by original design manufacturer Wistron Corporation, with participation from Hive Ventures, Top Taiwan Venture Capital Group and Silicon Valley Taiwan Investments. InfuseAI , a MLOps startup based in Taiwan, announced today it has raised a $4.3 ” Arrikto raises $10M for its MLOps platform.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Rafizi emphasized that the development of startup companies holds great importance in speeding up Malaysia’s economic transition toward technology and digital-based industries. The move aims to create a conducive environment for technopreneurs and supports the broader vision of strengthening the venture capital ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2021

Today, Israeli startup Vdoo — which has been developing AI-based services to detect and fix those kinds of vulnerabilities in IoT devices — is announcing $25 million in funding, money that it plans to use to help it better address the wider issue as it applies to all connected objects. billion by 2025 from $12.5

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Further evidence of this is the news that today British e-bike manufacturer FuroSystems has closed its first institutional venture funding round of £750,000 with participation by TSP Ventures and European impact investment bank ClearlySo , as well as a number of angel investors. universities.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The funding round was spearheaded by Lion X Ventures and Vickers Venture Partners, with participation from Advanced MedTech and Eckuity Capital. The company aims to refine its ultra-portable peritoneal dialysis (PD) device, gearing it up for the impending final pivotal trial in the United States, scheduled for 2025.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

million to help developers securely connect software services , Kyle reports. It keeps going and going, hopefully : In a move toward better environmental stewardship, Apple says new batteries will use 100% recycled cobalt by 2025 , reports Brian. You otter give it a try : Otterize raises $11.5

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Existing investors, including the Series B lead Scale Venture Partners, Madrona Ventures and Root Ventures, also participated. billion units by 2025. Today, Seattle-based Esper has more than 200 paying customers and over 2,000 developers using its platform for product development. is expected to reach 30.9

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The round was led by Altos Ventures , along with strong support from BonAngels Venture Partners, Access Ventures, Mahanusa Capital, Prodigy Investment, and Pearl Abyss Capital. Proceeds from this round will be used for future product developments and hiring across new divisions as Plugo expands operations.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 30, 2022

Register Kickstart Ventures , one of the most active venture capital firms in the Philippines, celebrates its 10th anniversary with a renewed commitment to invest in startups across the Philippines, and in major innovation hubs in Southeast Asia and beyond.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Other participants are existing investors MDI Ventures , GGV Capital and Telkomsel Mitra Inovasi, and new investors including Singtel Innov8. Indonesia’s digital economy is projected to reach $146 billion by 2025 and become Southeast Asia’s largest digital economy valued at more than $300 billion by 2030.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

million seed round, the company is back with a cash infusion of $15 million in Series A funding in a round led by Craft Ventures. billion by 2025, according to Grand View Research. The new funding will enable ConverseNow to continue developing its line-busting technology and invest in marketing, sales and product innovation.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 1, 2023

The investment round was led by Quest Ventures Asia Fund II, an early-stage venture capital fund managed by Singapore-based Quest Ventures Pte Ltd. This marks Quest Ventures Asia Fund II’s second investment in HOMA2U. This marks Quest Ventures Asia Fund II’s second investment in HOMA2U.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2021

Automation will displace 85 million jobs while simultaneously creating 97 million new jobs by 2025, according to the World Economic Forum. A number of startups are addressing these problems of employee skills, and are looking at talent development, neuroscience-based assessments and prediction technologies for staffing.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

To solve the problems of traditional electronic media, a startup in Boston, Catalog , was founded in 2016 by MIT scientists including co-founder and CEO Hyunjun Park, developing an energy efficient, cost competitive, and more secure data storage and computation platform by using synthetic DNA.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

The search for solutions to the challenge has given rise to startups like Doppler, which offers a service that developers can use to manage and secure secrets — specifically app secrets — “at scale” in enterprise environments. And it automates secret syncing, requiring developers to update secrets only once.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

The startup, which provides multiple products for the cross-border commerce space in Africa, raised this new financing from a group of international investors co-led by American Express (AMEX) Ventures, the strategic investment group of American Express. This investment is AMEX Ventures’ first in an African startup.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2023

When Porsche partnered with venture studio UP.Labs , the mission was to create six startups over three years all designed to solve the German automaker’s biggest problems and be compelling enough as a standalone business it that can attract other customers. Porsche is its first corporate partner.

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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. A recent ZDNet piece reaffirms that the AI edge chip market is booming, fueled by “staggering” venture capital financing in the hundreds of millions of dollars. billion by 2025.

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