TechCrunch

AUGUST 1, 2022

The dampened outlook for startup funding at the start of 2022 thanks to the pandemic’s lingering uncertainties has only worsened following a global market downturn and the war in Ukraine. Here are five things green founders should remember when seeking VC funding at this moment. When it rains, it pours.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

On February 24, Russia launched an invasion of neighboring Ukraine after months of a military build-up on its borders. News outlets in Ukraine are also reporting outages caused by cyberattacks, which the Ukrainian government says it has “unambiguously linked” to Moscow. Its payments processor, Paddle , is based in the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2022

Emmy Gengler is the CEO of Softjourn , a global technology services provider with offices in California, Ukraine and Poland. “The calls and texts started early, asking for power supplies and tools for fixing engines,” said Katia Ryzha, who lives and works in Ivano-Frankivsk, a small city in Western Ukraine.

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Cloud 4 Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

From responding to a global pandemic to standing up for equality and reacting to ongoing geopolitical forces, our nonprofits are leading the charge in bettering our communities. Since 2020, the global community has seen geopolitical uncertainty and a pandemic. Supporting the Global Community to Create a Lasting Impact.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2023

Perhaps an exception to this oft-repeated phrase, in my experience, is Entrepreneur First out of London/Europe (but now also in Asia), and even then that entity is slightly closer to a pre-accelerator in the way it assembles talent before it assembles the startups (although it does also fund its startups). Of course, “your mileage may vary.”

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Bloomerang

JULY 26, 2022

On Wednesday, July 13, Bill Gates started a Twitter thread with an interesting observation: Several huge global setbacks over the past few years have left many people discouraged and wondering whether the world is destined to get worse. How can your nonprofit access those funds? It’s not interesting because it’s a revelation.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

For the first time in the program’s history, it will include targeted support for Ukraine. This is one of the first real steps toward Ukraine’s integration with the EU and I can’t be happier that we are becoming a part of European business and science communities. In 2022, Ukrainian companies started going global.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

World leaders, local communities, civil society, health organizations and the private sector all came together to create the Global Fund as a way to pool their resources, expertise and reach in service of that goal. Every three years, the fund is replenished by the 193 member nations of the UN. So much has happened since then.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2022

But with new funds lured in by their startups’ talent pool, global mindset, and capital efficiency, this could be starting to change. Sign up here. Central and Eastern Europe have had less venture capital at their disposal than their GDP or population could warrant. Let’s explore.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 16, 2012

The Founder Institute , the early-stage startup accelerator that aims to ‘globalize Silicon Valley’, is doubling down on Europe big time. The newly launched chapters are Zagreb (Croatia), Helsinki (Finland), Istanbul (Turkey), Rome (Italy) and Kyiv (Ukraine). Image credit: Ralph Orlowski / Getty Images.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

A branch of my family tree is from the Ukraine. I’m giving my support as well as sharing my teaching and technology skills with Women’s Rights organizations in Ukraine. I’m giving my support as well as sharing my teaching and technology skills with Women’s Rights organizations in Ukraine.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

Mark Pavlyukovskyy, Ajay Gupta and Glen Anderson formed New Zealand’s first operator-run fund, NZVC , over the last year and made its first close of $10 million on what Pavlyukovskyy said will end up being around $15 million when all is said and done. As such, NZVC’s fund is targeting the seed to Series A gap.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

While the announcement follows India’s decision to ban Sea’s popular title “Free Fire” in the country last month, TechCrunch reports that the company is insisting the reason is “global market uncertainties.” There’s still money flowing, and funds that raised huge capital pools still have to allocate it, slowdown or not. Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

VCs in developed markets have been warning of a funding winter — with the pace and size of investments in startups slowing down considerably in the wake of other declines in the market — and that has been playing out even more in emerging markets like Kenya, too. As the global venture capital market slows, Africa charts its own course.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Stand with the people of Ukraine. BTC - 357a3So9CbsNfBBgFYACGvxxS6tMaDoa1P ETH and USDT (ERC-20) - 0x165CD37b4C644C2921454429E7F9358d18A45e14 — Ukraine / ??????? Ukraine) February 26, 2022. In tech-savvy Ukraine, crypto has emerged as a quick and easy way to handle this money. Now accepting cryptocurrency donations.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 26, 2013

For us, the opportunity is not about taking market share from other players, it’s really about expanding the awareness of online work and hiring these virtual global teams as an alternative to traditional way of recruiting or building a company,” he said. The competition was intended for software developers from Russia and Ukraine.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2023

The company has raised a $20M A round, including $5 million in non-dilutive funding, which should put the first two thermal infrared satellites into orbit. The funding builds the company’s $15 million seed from 2021. But those datasets are relatively infrequently updated and usually somewhat low resolution.

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Candid

JULY 27, 2022

When a crisis occurs—whether it’s the war in Ukraine or the COVID-19 pandemic—people seek up-to-date information. Who is funding them, and what activities do donors support? To help the sector understand the emerging funding picture, Candid prioritizes collecting current, “real-time” data. foundations’ giving.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Xreal announced in January 2024 it had raised an additional $60 million in funding for further development of its AR glasses. Varjo and partner Dogfight Boss also announced in August that their headset-based F-16 simulator had been deployed to help Ukraine train fighter pilots in its war with Russia. million global views.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

We’ve seen widespread losses in global equity markets this year. After a decade-long bull run, many venture capital funds have found themselves holding overvalued shares of companies whose IPO prospects have been either eliminated or significantly delayed. Higher geopolitical tensions over Ukraine. With respect to the U.S.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 7, 2022

Established in 2020 as an independent entity, the WHO Foundation complements and strengthens the work of WHO and its global network of partners by mobilizing new funding from diverse sources—including philanthropists, corporate entities, and the public—to power WHO’s mission. Setting up a Secure, Yet Flexible Platform.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

For years, Amadeus managed its own infrastructure, but as the pandemic slowed global travel to a trickle, its executive team realized that mounting technical debt was holding the company back. Dear Sophie, We’re a startup that currently has an employee, who is originally from Ukraine, working for us on an H-1B visa.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

This March, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a bill to establish a regulatory framework for cryptocurrency in the country. Global finance and tech firms are supporting Ukraine. Both organizations are collaborating to strengthen the fintech landscape in Ukraine.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

SPACs are the construct VCs need to fund clean tech. and globally, VC activity in 2022 is well on track to exceed a long-term trend that started in 2006 for total amount invested. lockdowns and Russia’s war on Ukraine placed further pressure on an already strained global supply chain. In the U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Global macroeconomic instability, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, funding shortfalls, supply chain disruptions and many other factors made running a company an extremely challenging experience. Last year was akin to a ride through hell. It sounds like a cliche, but in the midst of difficulty lies opportunity.

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The Next Web

MARCH 3, 2016

At the moment of writing, Seed-DB, a global database of seed stage accelerators, listed 235 programs (both active and defunct) that 5,688 startups had gone through. It’s hard to get the exact data on how many startup acceleration programs are being launched every year, but it’s definitely a lot.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Thomas Duscha, founder and CEO of Berlin-based battery swapping startup Swobbee , was in Poland visiting family in early March when the reach of the Ukraine crisis galvanized him to action. “I In the weeks since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine, more than 2.8 Transporting refugees from Ukraine. refugee agency. Donate here.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

One of the more popular announcements today is that its newer AI-powered “multisearch” has gone global. Mike reports that Planet A Ventures announces a €160 million European, science-backed climate fund. Sarah writes that this combines text and images in a single query. There’s also a variation for local business searches. For science!

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

The Ukraine-based startup will now enter new markets and strengthen its positions in Poland, Russia, Spain and Latin America. billion English language learners globally and the number of children among them reached 500 million in 2020. There are approximately 1.5 There are approximately 1.5

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This brings Seafair’s total funding to about $7 million. Greece is one of the global superpowers in shipping, so when I was working in consulting, I became close to the industry and really fell in love with it.”. Maritime intelligence platform Greywing raises seed funding from investors like Flexport.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Macrometa , the edge computing cloud and global data network for app developers, announced today it has raised a $20 million Series A. It will hire for its engineering and product development centers in the United States, Eastern Europe and India, and add new centers in Ukraine, Portugal, Greece, Mexico and Argentina.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

We’ve got acquisitions, funding rounds, the end of products, and more. The push to fund Ukraine’s war-torn nation-state with crypto is turning out to be An Actual Thing. TechCrunch has notes on how Ukraine is using the coin more generally and from a military perspective. PST, subscribe here. Startups/VC. The answer?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

More funding for European end-to-end encrypted messaging app, Wire : The enterprise-focused messaging platform told TechCrunch it closed a €24 million Series C round of funding led by growth equity firm Cipio Partners and Iconical, the investment vehicle of Skype co-founder Janus Friis.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

million equity funding from Dutch impact investor Oikocredit in its second close of the pre-series A round. The new funding brings the total amount raised in the round to $14.4 debt funding. Ghanaian agtech Farmerline to use new funding to strengthen its infrastructure, help farmers create wealth. million , including $6.4

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2023

Mark Boggett is the CEO and co-founder of the Seraphim Space Manager LLP , the world's first listed fund focused on space tech. While it’s still a very early market with limited existing capabilities, companies such as Apple, T-Mobile, Globalstar, SpaceX, AST SpaceMobile and Lynk Global are targeting this area.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

Supply chain disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine is driving increased costs of goods and services, affecting not only the industrial sector (e.g., South Korean startup Tridge wants to address the issue via its online trade platform that matches global food agriculture buyers and sellers.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2023

In 2017, when the billionaire hedge fund manager “Stevie” Cohen decided to build out a venture practice — Point72 Ventures — he poached Gwak, and Gwak has remained active since, including leading a 50-person team that has invested more than $1 billion into roughly 130 companies on Cohen’s behalf. Air Force and U.S

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