TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

For the better part of a decade, VC firms and growth equity funds have plowed nearly $42 billion into battery technology startups across almost 1,700 deals, according to an analysis by PitchBook and TechCrunch. And if the risks from battery startups are tough for VCs to stomach, then it’s an even harder pill for growth equity to swallow.

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MARCH 5, 2021

(co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.). We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” Why are all of the VC home runs from white men, or Asian men in Asia, plus a few Asian men in the U.S.?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The demand for software engineers is expected to grow by 22% between 2020 and 2030, according to a report by the U.S. The VCs in the round include Voltron Capital, Nestcoin, Pledges and Odba VC. Bureau of Labor Statistics. This figure is larger than the 4% average for other careers.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

The pledge also requires VC firms to have 25% of their staff be BIPOC women, believing the increase in diversity behind the scenes will help pivot more deal flow into marginalized communities. trillion in wealth for Black entrepreneurs by 2030. “You have to start at who is left behind and bring them to the starting line.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 21, 2022

Participants in the round also included Rebel VC, Kharis Capital, Newman Capital, First Check Ventures, Micro Ventures, Springcamp and AngelHub. One factor in Anfin’s favor is the Vietnamese government’s goal of increasing the amount of people who invest in stocks from 3% in 2021 to 5% in 2025, and 10% in 2030.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

For Roger, whose upbringing was on the westside of Chicago, he doubles as an active angel investor and a VC scout. It is predicted that freelancers will account for as much as 80% of the entire workforce worldwide by 2030.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

To achieve all that, I’ll follow your ambition — 10 technology companies that are worth €100 billion or more by 2030,” Macron said. The biggest VC funds aren’t as big as the biggest VC funds in the U.S. It means that Europe should consider using public funding as a multiplier effect for VC funds. or in China.

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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

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Tech companies, investors and associations signed a manifesto with the goal of reaching 10 tech companies that are worth €100 billion or more by 2030. New financial incentive to create 10 to 20 large VC funds. Around the same time, French President Emmanuel Macron launched a different group called Scale-Up Europe.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

As the pandemic unevenly roars on, Emily Melton , founder and managing partner of Threshold VC , is reflecting on a previous public health crisis: the Spanish flu. billion in value by 2030. Today, interventional medicine is the dominant mindset in Western healthcare.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 9, 2023

Its existing investors Hive Ventures, AUO and SVTI also participated in the round, joined by Darwin Ventures, Harbinger VC, and Jensen Capital Management. percent from 2022 to 2030 as more enterprises employ AI and machine learning tools to drive predictive algorithms and applications for operational optimization.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

But it’s worth keeping in mind that your investors aren’t asking you to predict to the nearest penny how your company is going to perform in 2030. Hell, that isn’t just true for companies at the pre-seed stage; if founders could predict the future, there wouldn’t be so much nervousness around IPOs. Being venture-scale.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Hakobyan said the startup’s suite of solutions — and support from New Jersey-based VC firm SOSV — helped inked the deal. “In In ASEAN, the middle class is expected to more than double between now and 2030, to reach 334 million people. Financial services are likely to expand at the same pace if not faster.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

David Teten is founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten. 15 steps to fundraising a new VC or private equity fund. Katherine Boe Heuck is a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022), a past intern at Versatile VC and a current intern at Metaprop NYC. David Teten. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Flowstate VC, Force Ventures, IndigoEdge Advisors, Toch.ai, Nishchay Goel, and Saikiran Krishnamurthy also participated in the funding round, according to the announcement. billion by 2030, according to data from Allied Market Research. Ltd, joining ADB Ventures as investor. percent to $45.85

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2022

SpaceX launches South Korea’s first moon mission : South Korea has launched its first-ever lunar mission — a lunar orbiter “launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket” ahead of plans to land on the surface some time in 2030. You can still get the ball rolling.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Tomorrow’s episode of Extra Crunch Live will feature guests VC Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures and Rachel Carlson, CEO and co-founder of Guild Education. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. Image Credits: Cowboy Ventures / Guild Education. Image Credits: Thitima Thongkham / Getty Images.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Zach Aarons, MetaProp VC Which trends are you most excited about in construction robotics from an investing perspective? annual spend globally by 2030, we spend a lot of time studying the space finding opportunities that are solving some of the biggest pain points that are hindering the industry.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

The money came from its recent funding round led Better Bite Ventures and participated by Ahimsa VC, PeerCapital, Spectrum Impact, Rohit Gulati (Managing Director and Partner at Boston Consulting Group), Sandhya Sriram (Chief Executive Officer, Shiok Meats), among others.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

On-demand delivery startups like Getir and Gopuff operate hundreds of dark stores within the cities they service — one analysis projects that there will be 45,000 dark stores in operation by 2030. Logistics startups in particular attracted big VC money in 2021, raising over $27.5 million seed round.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Opera Tech Ventures, the VC arm of BNP Paribas, also put money in the round. trillion market by 2030, according to a forecast from Simon Torrance. Alviere has now raised a total of $90 million since its 2017 inception. Embedded finance is a hot topic these days and it feels like we’re seeing a growing number of rounds in the space.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

This news follows the $2 million pre-seed round Nexta announced this March, which Egyptian early-stage VC Disruptech led. Nexta , an Egyptian startup that plans to launch its banking app in the coming months, has secured a $3 million investment from eFinance Group, a state-owned provider of digital payments solutions.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

Meanwhile, other fintechs are providing a broader spectrum of financial services for these gig workers (who, according to the Mastercard Foundation, are expected to reach over 80 million by 2030). ImaliPay is an example. The fintech raised an $800,000 pre-seed round in 2020.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

based VC RedBlue Capital. The startup, which has already supplied five EV trucks to Amazon India’s Delivery Service Partner and plans to provide “in the thousands” more by the end of the year, according to one investor, has just raised a $28 million seed round, led by new U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

million in VC funding, has facilitated over 200,000 doctor appointments while enabling healthcare providers to generate approximately $130 million in billings. According to both founders, the Helium Health and Meddy teams are identical in operations, technology execution, culture and market price points. The company, backed with just $1.8

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2023

In an echo of points made by US VC Mark Suster about how panic amongst VCs had boosted the SVB crisis (and in a possible reference to the effect of the Streisand Effect ), Kanji tweeted : “The law firms and other VCs caused the panic imho.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2021

million in seed funding led by VC firm Index Ventures. Nonetheless, the carbon offset markets are poised for huge growth — of at least 15x by 2030 — as large corporates accelerate their net zero commitments. It’s just grabbed $5.8

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2023

and more digital health fundings Google’s VC firm just led a $12 million Series A investment in Range, a startup that’s training AI to give financial advice OpenEnvoy raises $15 million to grow AP automation solution Miami-based startup Kiddie Kredit raises $1.4M Fintech projected to become a $1.5

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Only 11% of VC partners are women , and as a whole, women angel investors have only reached 22%. The stats for women in investing are somewhat bleak. On the entrepreneur side, things look better, with over 40% being women. However, things are starting to look up even more. and are expected to control $22 trillion by 2020.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

billion by 2030 — up from $128.44 Bias risk aside, money talks — even at a time when global insurtech VC funding continues to cool. Commercial auto insurance is a massive market, with Allied Market Research estimating that it’ll be worth $307.10 billion in 2020.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

GW of offshore wind capacity last year, a figure it says is set to grow 25 times by 2030. million) in a round of funding led by Northstar Ventures , a VC firm based in Newcastle Upon Tyne, near VRAI’s U.K. The broader European Union, meanwhile, claimed around 14.6 ” Training day. .” hub in Gateshead.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 15, 2022

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OurCrowd

JUNE 20, 2021

In 2016, the Saudi government announced its Vision 2030 which it said aimed to end the kingdom’s “addiction” to oil and diversify its economy and energy sources. You don’t have to be a tree-hugging naturalist to embrace the shift. Exciting Opportunities.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

The wider ecosystem of circa 450 scale-ups that EsTech intends to represent will have a goal of reaching 40% tech GDP in 2030. Other fast growing Spanish startups Typeform , Travel Perk , Heura Foods and Wallapop are suggested as likely candidates to be next in line to join the club.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 24, 2022

It is estimated that by 2030, DAC facilities around the world will be removing 1.5bn tons of CO2. DAC facilities exist and are removing carbon from the atmosphere but the total carbon removal rate from DAC is currently only around 100,000 tons of CO2.

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APRIL 27, 2023

But founder Matthew Joseph Martin soon realized that the startup, backed by investors like Boost VC and Tim Draper, was serving a relatively niche market in the States. The microfinancing platform connects investors with small businesses using mudarabah, a shariah-compliant profit-sharing agreement. Indonesia emerged as the best choice.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

“It makes little sense to deliver an iPhone or a poke bowl in a Buick,” Nate Jaret, general partner at Maniv Mobility, an Israeli VC that specializes in early-stage mobility companies, told TechCrunch. The last-mile delivery market size is expected to hit $123 billion by 2030 , at a compound annual growth rate of 13.21%.

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