TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

The company is headquartered in Japan, with operations in Malaysia, and plans to expand into Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia. million USD) in pre-Series A funding from Rakuten Ventures and Beyond Next Ventures to build a B2B logistics platform for farmers that sell to restaurants, hotels and other F&B (food and beverage) businesses.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

Climate change is intensifying across the globe, and one of the most challenging cases is Japan. Japan has been something of a gem in One Concern’s market development the past few years. The rise of (societal) resilience tech. The company was founded in 2015.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Global investors are running from Chinese tech stocks in the wake of the government’s crackdown on Ant Group and Alibaba, two high-flying businesses founded by Ma Yun (Jack Ma) that were once hailed as paragons of China’s new tech elite. As the tit-for-tat tech conflict between the U.S. drop today.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2020

This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private market news, talks about the coming week, digs into some recent funding rounds and mulls over a larger theme or narrative from the private markets. And it doesn’t appear that Japan did either. Lalamove raised $515 million in a Series E.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Railsbank , the London-headquartered Banking-as-a-Service platform, has raised $37 million in new growth funding. and expand its product in APAC, including the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia and Japan. Leading the round is MiddleGame Ventures and Ventura Capital, which are both existing investors in Railsbank.

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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. Despite the economic uncertainty, we believe new records will be established in spacetech as giant commercial projects get funded. Mark Boggett. Contributor. Cell phone connectivity from space.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2021

Japan owner Z Holdings last month, and now the two firm’s venture capital arms have also combined. The new firm also announced the launch of a 30 billion JPY (about $271 million USD) fund, which it claims makes it one of the largest corporate venture capital funds in Japan. startups into Japan.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

NGK Spark Plug , one of the world’s largest manufacturers of automative spark plugs, announced a new $100 million fund to invest in startups and find potential merger and acquisition deals. In recent years, the Nagoya, Japan-headquartered company has begun focusing on new technologies , like solid-state electric vehicle batteries.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

Aldagram , a startup out of Japan developing project management software for construction companies, has picked up a new strategic backer to help it build out its footprint across Asia and the Middle East. The global construction management software market is expected to reach $23.9 billion in 2031, up from $9.3

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

CADDi, a Tokyo-based B2B ordering and supply platform in the manufacturing and procurement industry, helps both procurement (demand side) and manufacturing facilities (supply side) by aggregating and rebalancing supply and demand via its automated calculation system for manufacturing costs and databases of fabrication facilities across Japan.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

Tokio Marine , a Tokyo-headquartered insurance corporation, said Tuesday it has launched its $42 million corporate venture capital (CVC) fund, dubbed Tokio Marine Future Fund, to invest in early-stage startups around the world. . billion assets under management (AUM), to drive the CVC’s investment strategy and process.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

Age-tech startups at this year’s CES demonstrated the potential breadth of the sector. If tech can help an older person live more comfortably, it can also help out a lot of other people. It can be voice controlled via Alexa (the startup is backed by the Amazon Alexa Fund).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

In this case, Barnabas Birmacher, CEO of Platform as a Service company Bitrise, shared the lessons he learned as his team attempted to enter Japan. Instead of relying solely on strategic partners, his team visited Japan before ramping up to host events and engage directly with early adopters. More valuable, in other words.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

BeeHero has been growing fast since its debut and seed round last year, and $19M in new funding means it can scale beyond its initial markets and find more uses for its one-of-a-kind collection of data collected from thousands of active honeybee hives. they’re currently the fourth largest).

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

The funding was led by Asia private equity firm TGVest Capital. “We We plan to use the new funding to double down on expanding our footprint in key markets, including Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong, Korea and Asia,” founder and CEO Ming Chen told TechCrunch. “In In Japan alone, we added 35,000 new activities.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Part of the funding will be used to expand into other Asian countries. Most of SNKRDUNK’s transactions are within Japan now, but it plans to become a cross-border marketplace. Along SODA’s $3 million Series A last year, this brings the startup’s total funding so far to $25 million. Launched in 2018, SNKRDUNK now has 2.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

Nreal , the well-funded Chinese AR headset maker that’s been making aggressive global expansion, said Thursday that it has raised $15 million from Korean sunglasses brand Gentle Monster ’s parent company, IICOMBINED. .” Japan, South Korea, Spain, and Germany. It only debuted in China, where it’s based, in August.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

In Japan, where the real estate market is fragmented, homeowners have faced uncertain selling prices riddled with brokerage fees and an average selling period of between four and eight months, Ito said. When purchasing an existing house in Japan, brokerage fees usually amount to about 3% of the property price, Ito added. . and the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

Procore, a construction tech unicorn, went public in 2021 , and Aconex, an Australia-based construction platform, was acquired by Oracle for $1.2 In energy-efficiency tech, Energy X’s peers include Enpal, which raised a $174 million Series C at a valuation of $1.1 The startup will open an office in Japan in February, Park added.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 6, 2025

Japan’s Seven & i , the parent company of the Japanese 7-Eleven convenience store chain, said Thursday it is selling its supermarket store assets to Bain Capital for about $5.4 Funds from the IPO and the sale to Bain will be returned to shareholders in the form of share buybacks worth 2 trillion yen ($5.4 fund, for $1.5

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

While working as a software engineer in Japan, Singapore and San Francisco for the past 10 years, Ryo Chikazawa , CEO and co-founder of Autify , came to realize that there’s one common problem in the software development industry; software testing takes excessive time. The latest funding brings Autify’s total raised to $12.2

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

With their services more relevant than ever during the COVID-19 pandemic, the startup announced it has raised $14 million in new funding. Based in Hong Kong, Coherent helps insurance providers go digital. Coherent will focus on China and emerging markets in Asia.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

Few areas in tech today are as polarized as the blockchain gaming space. Before the debate is settled, the ecosystem around blockchain games is already getting built and funded. Before the debate is settled, the ecosystem around blockchain games is already getting built and funded. million into its Series A funding round.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Many kids want to study coding, but school curriculums are limited, said Tung Nguyen, the co-founder of MindX , an online/offline education platform that focuses on preparing students for tech careers. MindX also received debt funding from Beacon Fund, an investment firm that focuses on companies founded by women.

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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. Terra Drone’s UT drone for inspection is certified as a ship inspection by the International Register of Shipping , the Japan-based startup said.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2021

This round of funding was led by Hanwha Hotel & Resort, which is a subsidiary of South Korean conglomerate Hanwha Corporation. The company had raised Series A funding of $1.8 The company had raised Series A funding of $1.8 Big tech corporations, ranging from Facebook, Intel to Microsoft, are targeting to move in the area.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

The company closed two funding rounds in 2024: $200 million in February and $260 million in September at a $4.6 In May 2024 DeepL raised a $300 million funding round and saw its valuation rise to $2 billiondoubling its valuation after its previous funding round a year earlier. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

As the insurance industry adjusts to life in the 21st century (heh), an AI startup that has built computer vision tools to enable remote damage appraisals is announcing a significant round of growth funding. as well as a large swathe of insurers in Japan, specifically Tokio Marine Nichido, Mitsui Sumitomo, Aioi Nissay Dowa and Sompo.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

The round also included participation from returning backers food tech venture firm AgFunder and Decacorn Capital, and new investor Anthill Ventures. Its customer base started in Southeast Asia, before expanding into China, Japan, the United States and Europe. The present and future of food tech investment opportunity.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2022

Apropos layoffs, Natasha M took a closer look at the data about who has been hit the hardest in the great tech layoff wave. Byju announced an $800 million funding back in March, but Manish reports that the startup is $250 million short of hitting that goal. Big Tech Inc. Spoiler alert: It’s fintech leading the discharge.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

Based in Japan, biotech startup Dioseve ’s ambitious goal is to grow human oocytes, or eggs, from other tissue. The new funding will enable Dioseve to hire more people and accelerate its research and development. DIOLs is currently in trials and has been published in scientific journal Nature.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Retail analytics unicorn Trax expects that this openness to tech innovation will continue even after the pandemic. The round included primary and secondary capital, and was led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and returning investor BlackRock. Other participants included new investors OMERS and Sony Innovation Fund by IGV.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

and Pony.ai, which both operate out of China’s southern metropolis Guangzhou and California, have participated in OnTime’s one billion yuan ($153 million) Series A funding round, according to an announcement from ride-hailing company OnTime on Tuesday.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Thomas Clayton has started and run numerous high-tech startups in Silicon Valley. The company is one of the largest VC–backed startups in Southeast Asia, having raised over $60M in funding. We’ve asked him to give us some insight into starting, building, and funding a company across Asia. Where are all of the VCs in Asia?

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

Shypyard , a startup developing business planning products and services for brands and direct-to-consumer merchants, closed on $3 million in seed funding. Last week, Ghost announced new funding for its marketplace approach to managing excessive inventory. They followed Syrup Tech, which raised $6.3

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The overarching goal for the regulation is to ensure continued access for the EU to the high tech chips now needed to power all sorts of machines and devices. “We are mobilising considerable public funding which is already attracting substantial private investment. “Chips are at the centre of the global technological race.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Tokyo space startup Gitai Japan successfully conducted a technology demonstration of its autonomous robotic arm inside the International Space Station last week, a key milestone as the company prepares to provide robotics as a service in space. Providing this option furthers the goals of commercialization of space.”.

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