TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The agreement includes building Eat Just’s first factory in Asia, which will be based in Singapore. As part of the deal, Proterra, which focuses on agri-tech, will invest up to $100 million in the facility, while Eat Just will invest $20 million. Alternative protein companies have raised a whopping $1.5

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The Exchange gained early access to pi Ventures’ Deep Tech Shifts 2026 report , which identifies 15 deep tech sub-sectors the firm believes will reach an inflection point by 2026. Climate tech: incidental to critical. Energy storage : Li-Ion to alternative chemistries. Blockchain: promising to mainstream.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Singapore-based Next Gen Foods will bring its plant-based chicken alternative to the United States after raising a $20 million seed extension. The first $10 million was already the largest seed funding ever raised by a plant-based food tech company, based on data from Pitchbook, and now the round totals $30 million.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

As consumers’ interest in the environment and nutrition rises, food-tech companies join the race to invent meat alternatives. In 2021, alternative seafood companies received $175 million in investment globally, increasing 92% from 2020. Fish replacement may be the next big wave in alternative protein development.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

The tech boom in Southeast Asia isn’t just seeding a wave of new entrepreneurs building the next generation of unicorns, it’s also ushering young talent into the roles of first-time managers. Currently, its content looks more general, serving the emerging manager in tech, not the first-time manager handling a fintech startup during a pivot.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Singapore is quickly turning into a hub for food-tech startups , partly because of government initiatives supporting the development of meat alternatives. Next Gen claims this is the largest seed round ever raised by a plant-based food tech company, based on data from PitchBook. million of founder capital.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

is a venture capitalist investing in Silicon Valley and Singapore. You might have started searching for a tech-oriented co-founder to help you launch your idea, only to find that your startup can’t afford the ongoing salary for a skilled software developer. Crowdsourcing: The latest alternative. Eddy Lee, Ph.D,

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Brian Spears speaking at Hello Tomorrow Singapore. And, given worldwide efforts to address climate change, Hanwha “expected rapid market growth” in the food tech industry, particularly around cultured meat. Startups making meat alternatives are gaining traction worldwide. Image Credits: New Age Meats.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

Founded by fintech veterans last year, Brick develops APIs that make it easier for tech companies to add identity verification and access financial data from their users. The startup, which is now used by 250 developers and 35 tech companies, announced today it has raised new seed round. The amount of funding was undisclosed.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 17, 2013

When launching Listly in 2011, co-founder Shyam Subramanyan says that “listly.com” wasn’t available, but they were okay with choosing an alternative. Combine the word Loverly with a tech edge and you get Lover DOT ly!”. Why pick “joingrouper.com” rather than an alternative? “It Opting for the often used “.ly” me (“locate me!”)

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Hubilo’s clients have included the United Nations, Roche, Fortune, GITEX, IPI Singapore, Tech In Asia, Infocomm Asia and Clarion Events. With about 30 employees and reserves for only three months, Jain said the company had to choose between shutting down or finding an alternative model.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Thomas Clayton has started and run numerous high-tech startups in Silicon Valley. Singapore is by far the most developed behind those big three markets with government schemes attracting over a dozen early stage firms to set up shop here (e.g. Golden Gate Ventures , Jungle Ventures , etc.),

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The Togo- and Singapore-based company received investment from AAIC, Thunes (TransferTo), Momentum Ventures (SMRT), Innoport Ventures (Schulte Group), CMC Ventures (National Express) and Liil Ventures (Mobility ADO). “And Since Gozem started the lease model, it has provided up to 1,500 vehicles to drivers.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

There’s no other alternative to get there. It also built a pop-up vertiport in Singapore for a tech conference late last year. The company’s chief operating officer, Remo Gerber, told The Verge the plan is to create service where passengers can fly to nearby cities in a much shorter time than it takes to drive. “So Petersburg.”.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

An emergency room doctor initially told him that there was no chance of survival, but then another doctor called one of his peers in the United States, and they came up with an alternative treatment plan that worked. Docquity was created to help doctors collaborate in the same way, at scale, even if they live in different countries.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

A true comparison : Now people in Europe can know the joy and wonder that is the Klarna price comparison tool, which Paul writes may just be a “credible alternative to Google and Amazon.”. Singapore, get your exotic taste buds ready : Vow, an Australian-based cultured meat company, gobbled up $49.2 Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Sengupta said Wednesday his startup, rebranded as Arta Finance, will work to provide individuals access to alternative assets that have so far largely been limited to the ultrawealthy. You can go to the financial planner, but it feels old school for us tech-savvy people. Now, he is ready to share what they have been up to.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2022

While tech broadly has not suffered a prolonged recession since the early 2000s, crypto startups have endured much tighter windows of boom and bust. For our guest, we had investor Grace Isford join us from Lux Capital to talk about the infrastructure that works behind-the-scenes to make web3 tech run smoothly. follow the money.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

MWC, or Mobile World Congress, is a yearly tech confab that has become, Heater notes, “the smartphone show.” From the mobility front: Beam raises $93M, proves that the e-scooter market is not kaput : Beam, a Singapore-based company, rents out e-scooters and other electric personal transport machines. Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Speaking of BNPL, tech giant Apple is apparently moving forward with its plans to offer its own buy now, pay later service and according to Bloomberg , “laying out rules for how it will approve transactions.” Ho is QED’s first employee in Singapore. Last August, the firm made its first investment in Africa.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

“Mining” has become synonymous with crypto the past few years in the tech industry, what with Bitcoin piercing the $50,000 barrier and GPUs and ASICs worldwide scrambling to hash functions in a bid for distributed crypto manna. That’s one reason why DuPont is making a push to prove out its extraction technologies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

The startup grants loans to students at a fair interest rate by evaluating the data they generated — alternative and derived — in India itself. Leap is addressing this huge opportunity through its end-to-end tech platform and a community-first approach,” said Amit Anand, founding partner of Jungle Ventures, in a statement.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

It’s a gap Marco Financial is looking to bridge through its tech-enabled risk assessment platform that can provide better insight on who should receive loans. How tech can build more resilient supply chains. Miami-based Marco Financial is launching a revenue-based lending service for Latin American SMEs.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

Synthesis Capital , the one-year-old London-based food technology and alternative protein investor, closed its first fund with over $300 million in capital commitments. In addition, having that government backing from early adopter countries, like Singapore and the Middle East, is also helping to advance some of that, she added.

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2023

The circumstances around his departure remain fuzzy, but one source speculated that tension arose between Ackerson and Fin founding partner Logan Allin over some of the goings-on at alternative financing startup Pipe last year. with support from Dwyane Wade and Baron Davis Black-owned tech firm Greenwood acquires digital banking rival.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Three out of Sequoia’s four deals in the capital markets space were follow-on investments, a reflection of the firm’s “faith in the future of capital markets tech,” noted CB Insights. A16z backed 49 companies in the fintech space last year and its top three fintech targets were payments (28%), blockchain (22%) and digital lending (12%).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

Blue skies, smiling at me : Bluesky, the Jack Dorsey–backed Twitter alternative, is now available on Android, writes Sarah. We assure you, they’re real : Singapore-based document verifier Accredify is now flush with $7 million to continue to tell you if your documents are real. Big Tech Inc. Catherine has more.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2023

Here’s a breakdown of Thousand Faces’ top 10 startups the Female Founder Accelerator: Company name: Kleiderly What it does: Recycle textile waste Founder: Alina Bassi Country: Germany The pitch: Kleiderly recycles unwanted textile waste and turns that into its patented plastic alternative in hopes of replacing the need for plastics.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

As pressure grows on companies to reduce reliance on gas and oil, established processes even at industrial scales are being questioned, offering an opportunity for tech to step in. The $12 million A round was led by SOSV, with participation from Anji Microelectronics, Real Tech Fund, Seeds Capital, EPS Ventures, and others.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Its customers range in size from tech startups to multinational conglomerates. Singapore is poised to become Asia’s Silicon Valley. After returning to Indonesia, Astandu and Kamtawijoyo began working on a more accurate and accessible alternative to traditional surveys, developing Populix while part of Gojek’s Xcelerate program.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

One example of a fintech company creating shariah-compliant products for underserved customers is Funding Societies, which is headquartered in Singapore with operations in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. The second one, issued a year later with the Financial Services Authority, covers Islamic fundamentals for P2P lending.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

These “sharing” tech companies are, in the end, profit-seeking endeavors, and as such they reproduce the all-too-familiar negative aspects of capitalism. We are becoming so dependent on Big Tech that we are starting to believe that there are no alternatives to the big monopolistic platforms. 9</sup). trillion in assets.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

The company, which uses mushrooms in its meat alternatives, has raised $6.5 Other participants included agriculture and food tech venture firm AgFunder, sustainability-focused Aera VC and Better Bite Ventures, along with Singapore-based produce importer Ban Choon Marketing and former Sequoia Capital partner Warren Hogarth.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

So my advice here is to use the term “longevity” with caution or use alternatives. Some think that life is meaningful because it is finite (who wants to live forever?). Others think about environmental or economic issues. As we all know, it is very difficult to convince people to do things that leave a visible impact only in the long term.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

The second thing to say about “polarization” is that while it has a lot of negative effects, it’s worth thinking about what your proposed alternative to it would be. But the past few years have taught us that while Congress is happy to kick and scream about the failures of tech platforms, it remains loath to actually regulate them.

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