TechCrunch

AUGUST 1, 2022

The ongoing deliberation signals Hyundai Motor’s accelerating efforts to strengthen its autonomous driving technology that is in line with the Korean automaker’s grand plan to invest $79 billion (95.5 trillion WON) through 2030 into autonomous driving software technology and electric vehicle-related businesses.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

Johannesburg-based investment company Founders Factory Africa (FFA) today announced a partnership with Small Foundation that will see it select 18 agritech startups for an acceleration and incubation program. FFA is an extension of the Founders Factory organisation that has invested in more than 130 companies globally.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 31, 2023

Through a joint announcement, the entities unveiled their intention to combine conventional bank credit with venture capital investment, all while ensuring minimal equity dilution for shareholders. This initiative will primarily focus on startups in the series B and series C funding stages.

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Impact Hub

AUGUST 19, 2020

trillion USD by 2030. Feeding the City Start Up has now worked with 23 early-stage social enterprises, providing business mentoring, practical workshops, direct funding, and access to investment. The post Accelerating Sustainable Food Business Solutions to Reshape Our Cities appeared first on Impact Hub. Feeding the City.

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TechCrunch

JULY 5, 2022

Temasek’s Pavilion Capital backs South Korean AI chip maker Rebellions with $50M investment. This is the second strategic investment KT has made with AI chipmakers in South Korea in its effort to accelerate the AI semiconductor business. billion by 2030, up from $8.02 million since its inception in 2020. .

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

This venture capital entity is expected to play a role in identifying and investing in promising startups in Indonesia. With this approach, the initiative plans to nurture homegrown innovation and accelerate the growth of Indonesia’s tech ecosystem.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 27, 2023

The recent investment in Sunrate comes at a favorable time as the global B2B cross-border payments market is substantially growing. Projections indicate a compound annual growth rate of 43%, leading to a market value of US$56 trillion by 2030.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Spain is preparing to push forward with pro-startup legislation, having recently unveiled a big and bold transformation plan with the headline goal, by 2030, of turning the country into ‘Spain Entrepreneurial Nation’, as the slightly clumsy English translation has it. So it will be something of a milestone. France and Germany.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Terra Drone said today it has raised $14 million in Series C funding from Wa’ed Ventures , the venture capital arm of Saudi Aramco , marking the VC firm’s first investment in Asia. ” Note: The original version of this article has been updated to include that Unifly has a presence in Europe and North America.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 30, 2023

The company has directed its investments towards diverse sectors within the region. billion), Dymon Asia is a significant player in the Southeast Asian investment landscape. These credit facilities were secured to support the investment activities initiated by Taonga Holdings. With assets under management totaling US$1.3

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Cannabis is seeing more startups bringing technology into the fold, attracting talent and investment. In April, Crunchbase reported that $357 million was invested into cannabis companies so far in 2021 , while forecasters say cannabis will be a $100 billion industry in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

Six new investors also have joined the round including Arena Holdings, DST Global, Minerva Growth Partners, Tybourne Capital Management, JAFCO Group and SBI Investment. The funding proceeds will be used for accelerating digital transformation of the platform, hiring and expanding to global markets. Enterprise AI 2.0:

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Getting behind the empowerment of women stimulates societies, entrepreneurship, job creation, accelerates revenue growth and develops inspiring and motivated leaders.” – Ingrid Vanderveldt. We are just recognizing that women entrepreneurs have to fight harder and longer to be as successful as their male counterparts.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The company aims to accelerate the global transition toward renewable energy by offering crucial support to businesses aiming to achieve carbon neutrality for Scope 2 emissions, which pertain to indirect carbon emissions from electricity, steam, heat, or cooling purchases. Funding Details: $1.5

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

The global tech sector is booming, and as technologies like cloud and AI accelerate their growth, the demand for tech talent outpaces supply globally. is the increasing focus on software as a service and broader digital transformations across industry sectors, which have accelerated due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

The commitment is contained under the 24/7 Carbon-free Energy Compact , by leading energy buyers, suppliers, equipment manufacturers and governments, representing a global effort to accelerate the uptake of carbon-free electricity as a way of averting the perilous effects of climate change. Image Credits: Husk Power Systems.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

A Manila-headquartered startup called CloudEats , which operates cloud kitchens across the Philippines and Vietnam, just raised a $7 million Series A extension led by Nordstar to accelerate the digitization of food service in Southeast Asia. . billion by 2030 , up from $15.2 The cloud kitchen market in Asia is projected to grow at 14.2%

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2023

After being selected for Adidas’ Accelerator in Europe, the company worked with the retailer to digitize more than 2,500 shoes. Snap is offering its AR tools to enterprise customers The company has been investing in AR-powered commerce in recent years and is building out its platform to leverage the technology. trillion by 2030.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2023

And, we were one of only three dedicated funds investing in aging and longevity when we launched in 2020, but we are now aware of at least six more agetech funds in formation, in addition to many other existing funds keen to expand their team to cover the sector. Here are our top predictions for the longevity industry in 2023.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

billion in revenue by 2030, up from $76.75 And, thus is is that New York-based Frontrunner , a decentralized sports prediction market, has now raised a $4.75M funding round by Susquehanna Private Equity Investments LLP. According to Grand View Research, the global sports betting market is expected to grow to $182.12 billion last year.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Its previous investors include SK Holdings , Bain Capital, Premier Partners, SoftBank Ventures Asia, Altos Ventures, KB Investment, Stonebridge Ventures, LB Private Equity, SG Private Equity, and more. SOCAR will accelerate to make additional acquisitions and advance its technology with the IPO proceeds, Park said.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

How is it possible that an over $5 trillion industry growing at more than 6% cannot seem to attract investment capital? trillion in 2030. Enrollment in private Medicare has doubled from 2010 to 2020 and is expected to accelerate further over the next 10 years. So why are we even discussing Medicare as an investment opportunity?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

Mercedes Bent and Bradley Twohig , partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners (a multi-stage generalist fund with investments including Forage, Clever, and Outschool). We invested in 14 new companies and are just finishing rounds in 2 more. Here’s a piece I wrote about that , which has accelerated significantly this year.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 9, 2023

The new investment will allow Profet AI to accelerate its overseas expansion into Japan, Southeast Asia and China. The company also intends to further develop its AutoML Virtual Data Scientist Platform and Ready To Go Applications and accelerate new product development. AUO, and Cheng Shin Rubber, etc.,

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The startup’s goal is to serve 1 billion people by 2030. The seed round was led by Breega VC firm, with participation of SoftBank Vision Fund Emerge, Finca Ventures, New General Market Partners, Globivest and Do Good Invest. It hopes to triple the number of credit unions using its software to 150 by the end of 2022.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

billion by 2030, up from 4 billion in 2020. The investment brings Memfault’s total raised to more than $35 million following a $8.5 “We sharpened our go-to-market motion in 2022 and saw a clear acceleration in the business,” Memfault co-founder and CEO François Baldassari told TechCrunch in an email interview.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Its one-year+ accelerator program is specifically focused on startups that are trying to come up with innovative ways to use and share data to tackle climate change, rather than being more broadly open to climate startups of all stripes (i.e. While the data-for-climate accelerator started in the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

(Worth noting, In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s strategic investment arm, has backed Deepgram in the past.). billion by 2030, according to one (optimistic?) Firms participating don’t need to pay any sort of fee and can use the funds in conjunction with existing grant, seed, incubator and accelerator benefits.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Global Market Insights predicts the industry could be worth $300 million by 2030.) Ravel and Duality are two others; Duality recently scored a $14 million DARPA contract for its hardware-accelerated homomorphic encryption tech. All homomorphic encryption platforms have their drawbacks, to be clear. ” Vaultree raises $12.8M

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Campaign Monitor

APRIL 19, 2023

If brands wish to get a slice of this pie, it may be worthwhile to note that AR and VR trends are expected to continue growing in the 2023 – 2024 years and accelerate over the 2023 – 2027 period, giving retailers the chance to enhance online shopping experiences in an exciting way that may bring in a fresh, young audience.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

This happened to be around the time he lost his father to depression, and Meyer decided to take some time off to focus on healing, and about a year-and-a-half ago, he started a number of side passion projects, including angel investing, advising and starting Keto Kitchen. Ghost Financial card app. Image Credits: Ghost Financial. “I

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Impact Hub

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Impact Hub Taipei: Fuelling a virtuous circle of impact Impact Hub Taipei’s 2030 Impact Accelerator is making waves in Taiwan’s entrepreneurial landscape by launching the country’s first global impact accelerator. The support provided by Impact Hub Taipei extends beyond the accelerator programme.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Now, just six months later, the startup is announcing an additional $50 million in Series B investment. trillion market by 2030, according to a forecast from Simon Torrance. We’re doing embedded finance, which is as big or bigger than BaaS,” Brisker told TechCrunch. So, how is this different from BaaS? That’s not what we’re doing.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

But on Wednesday, the company announced a $60 million dollar growth equity investment from FTV Capital. . Department of Health and Human Services projects that seven states will have significant nursing shortages by 2030. This network of nurses now stretches to 40,000, CEO and founder Tony Braswell tells TechCrunch. .

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The SaaS company plans to use the funds to extend its foothold in Southeast Asia and accelerate product development, which will include launching its unique payloads into Low Earth Orbit. billion by 2030, according to data from Allied Market Research. percent to $45.85

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

“Papaya will make it far easier for companies to source EVs, and manage them — this will accelerate the transition from combustion engine fleets to EV fleets.” ” Papaya is already live in five markets, including the U.K. Spain, France, Germany and Estonia.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

The biotech-enabled food science company will now accelerate research and development (R&D), expand the team and work on co-development of product formulation with key partners as they target to do their first product launch in 2024 in Singapore and India.

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