TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

million in pre-Series A funding led by Monk’s Hill Ventures. Two of its largest markets are Indonesia and the Philippines. Though many governments understand the importance of STEM skills for economic growth, many are struggling to incorporate them into their curriculums, he added. The startup announced today it has raised $2.8

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2021

As someone who covers Southeast Asia startups and funding stories, the best word I can think of to describe 2021 is “whoa!” Backed by international LPs, Southeast Asia-focused venture firms like Alpha JWC , AC Ventures and Jungle Ventures raised their largest funds yet. Indonesian venture capital firm Alpha JWC closes $433M third fund.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

government. Pylon currently operates in Egypt and the Philippines. This funding is the company’s first venture round. They serve more than 1 million metering endpoints across 26 separate meter models in Egypt and the Philippines. Over 12 different utilities (seven in the private sector and five in public) use Pylon.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The round was led by London-based specialized investor Insurtech Gateway, with participation from Rockstart’s AgriFood fund and others. “We work with mutuals, insurers, microfinance institutions, research institutions, farmers and breeders associations and governments,” its site explains. million – approximately $1.70

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

The amount of funding was undisclosed. The company is currently focused on product launches in Indonesia, and plans to start expanding into other high-growth fintech markets, including Singapore, the Philippines and Vietnam, later this year. Brick and other fintechs have benefited from strong support from Indonesian regulators.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

million in pre-seed funding. “ The future of the Masa protocol is to be fully decentralized, turning governance and management into a DAO structure.” Masa Finance , a hybrid credit protocol and decentralized credit bureau founded by Pngme CEO Brendan Playford in late 2020, has raised $3.5

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Today, the Singaporean-based startup announced it has raised $10 million, with the goal of expanding its wireless laser communications system in Indonesia, India, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore and the United States. by exploring collaborations with the government, enterprise and telecoms over the next 12 months.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

million in seed funding for its goal of becoming “the one-stop for verification in Southeast Asia.” When end users log onto an app that uses Verihubs for the first time, they are prompted to take a selfie and then upload a photo of a government-issued photo ID. Verihubs announced it has raised $2.8

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The startup also recently raised an undisclosed amount of pre-seed funding led by East Ventures, with participation from AC Ventures, Genesia Ventures, Two Culture Capital and other investors. It’s already eyeing Vietnam and the Philippines and has established partnerships in Brussels.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The startup built a back-end operating system platform that handles everything from incorporation, government, accounting, taxes and visas to regulatory compliance. and the Philippines. Corporate services platform Sleek lands $4 million in new funding. based SMEs.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2012

government aid, capital investment, philanthropy and remittances. 3 This study reports that a change is occurring; the long-held perception that the reduction in global poverty is primarily driven by government aid (from the U.S. 4 A broader look at the sources of funds moving from the U.S. billion) and the Philippines ($10.1

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2023

This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon. We also wrote about Tellus, a startup that raised $16 million in an Andreessen Horowitz–led seed round of funding last year that is now being scrutinized by the U.S. government.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

Its Series D will be used to support growth in those markets, and enter new Southeast Asian countries, including Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines. Localized versions of Employment Hero include pre-built employment contracts and policies that comply with local laws.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

million in funding — $15 million of which was raised in a Series A led by Menlo Ventures and $3.4 ” Funding across the globe. MarketForce, a retail B2B and end-to-end distribution platform founded in Kenya, raised $40 million in Series A funding for its merchant inventory financing and expansion across Africa.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

Eventually, Oasys hopes to allocate more governance power to its community and transition to what’s called a decentralized autonomous organization.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Apart from the world of crypto, it was a good day for new funds — Christine reports that New Fare Partners is the latest female-led VC to close first fund , and Catherine has a story today about Iterative launching its second fund targeting Southeast Asia–based startups. You can sign up here.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

With these issues not leaving Africa anytime soon, we should expect stronger crypto growth despite several governments’ efforts to stifle it. A part of the funds will also go into investing in web3 projects. Bademosi said Nestcoin might raise an independent fund to invest and participate in such deals and projects going forward.

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The Verge

APRIL 8, 2022

It offered full-time job prospects to some players and commanded an entry price of over $1,000 at its peak, while Sky Mavis itself was valued at $3 billion after a $152 million funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz. I do think that they have it just as well in check as the US government does.”.

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TechNode

MAY 24, 2024

We can use the funding to crystallize our vision into simple hardware that delivers the best possible experience for the mass market. That’s what Chinese families wanted, and it aligned with what the government wanted, which is more than 90% of the people should age at home. That’s why we have a company.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Netsquared Innovation Fund Netsquared Announces the 21 Featured Projects and solicits for feedback. Forum One Communications has a post about NOAA's Ocean Explorer on YouTube and Braving Uncharted Water with one very commonsense takeaway about piloting before you launch and some murky policy issues around government policies and social media.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2013

The leaders in adoption are China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, Nigeria, the Philippines, Brazil, and Mexico. It's a Microsoft-funded report by Christine Egger on the history of nonprofit technology assistance providers (NTAPs) like TechSoup, 501cTech , Idealware , Network for Good , NPower , NTEN , and Tech Impact.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

Universities can get stuck into three-year funding cycles,” he told TechCrunch.“But Queensland’s CoralBots are now being put to work in Australia, the Philippines, Vietnam and the Maldives. One Oceankind project that may raise eyebrows is its funding of research that strays into the controversial area of geoengineering.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The fresh capital, which brings its total funding raised to $135 million, was led by Affirma Capital, with participation from Sequoia Capital India, Hana Ventures, ICT Capital, EDB Investment (EDBI), AC Ventures, RTP Global and Momentum Venture Capital.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2022

2023 will be the year electric vehicles really start to take shape : “Driven by policy initiatives from governments and billions of dollars in investment from automakers, we can safely say the EV industry has begun to take shape,” Rebecca writes. Neither Christine nor Haje. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Hurricane Katrina had just happened, and many experts viewed it primarily as a failure of the government to take care of its weakest citizens in the face of a natural disaster, not as climate change’s early shot. Governments are finally putting tough building codes in place. When I started getting involved in clean tech 1.0

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

At least one study finds that congressional gridlock contributes to income inequality, while another implies that political stalemates have a greater negative impact than even hostile government policies on a company’s ability to innovate. in years when there was a unified GOP government. Consider how a recession might play out.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

million-member political action committee who works on issues from universal health care to climate change, and energy independence to restoring democracy through getting rid of the torture clause that the Bush administration has written into the government charter, and trying to get public funding for elections. We are a 3.5

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