TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

This February, Africa and emerging market-focused Nestcoin raised a pre-seed round to build, operate and invest in its web3 applications, including crypto content platform Breach Club and gaming guild Metaverse Magna (MVM). Nestcoin raises $6.45M pre-seed to accelerate crypto and web3 adoption in Africa and frontier markets.

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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

APRIL 26, 2023

Japanese shared micromobility startup Luup has raised $30 million (4.5 In an interview with TechCrunch, Luup CEO Daiki Okai said the startup’s ambitious plan is to expand its e-scooter and e-bike business across Japanese cities and tourist destinations. billion yen) in a Series D financing round, which consists of 3.8

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Servify, a startup that manages lifecycle of devices for several popular smartphone vendors including Apple and Samsung in many markets, has raised $65 million as it eyes becoming a public company in two years. It anticipates raising another $5 million to $10 million in the current round.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2022

AIMMO announced today it has raised $12 million in a Series A round to advance its data labeling technology and spur global expansions. Japan and Vietnam. Among all the directions and industries, our focuses are [mainly] smart city and autonomous driving.” . The Korea-headquartered startup has offices in the U.K,

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The startup has raised $155 million at a $700 million valuation. Scalapay has now raised $203 million in total.). . “When we launched, we saw between 5% and 10% of all transactions for our customers go through Scalapay,” CEO Simone Mancini, who co-founded the company with Johnny Mitrevski, said in an interview.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

The startup has raised a $72 million (85 billion won) Series C round from a single backer STIC Investments , JohnWoo Lee, CEO of Rsquare , said in an interview with TechCrunch. The latest funding brings its total raised to approximately $95 million. million Series B funding from Yahoo Japan Capital and SoftBank Ventures Asia.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

The latest round, which brings its total funding raised to $83 million, comes approximately a year after raising $14.4 Teppei Seki , COO of Terra Drone, said in an interview with TechCrunch that the company will use the Series B to increase its headcount and fuel its global expansion into Europe, the U.S. and Southeast Asia.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

Kyash , a Tokyo-based mobile financial app, has raised $41.2 The round comes from a number of investors including Japan Post Investment Corporation, Block (formerly known as Square), Greyhound Capital, SMBC Nikko Securities, Altos Ventures, Goodwater Capital, StepStone Group, JAFCO Group, Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Capital and others. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

We identified an opportunity that existed based on how long the equipment is being used versus how long it’s usable for,” Moov CEO Steven Zhou told TechCrunch in an interview. It also plans to expand its global presence in China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and Europe. There was a billion-dollar opportunity to repurpose this equipment.

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The Verge

JULY 20, 2021

million led by Scrum Ventures that includes Japan Airlines, TransLink Capital, and a host of others. First, though, Miles CEO Jigar Shah tells The Verge in an interview that the company has already made lots of changes to the app, especially since early last year, when it was forced to reshuffle priorities during the pandemic. “I

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Retail tech startup Daalchini , which offers smart vending machines to hundreds of brands in India, has raised $4 million as it works to establish autonomous smart stores and vending machines in every 200 meters of habitable area in the country. She said that unlike markets including Japan and the U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

It has now raised $1.4 The funding round was led by Taizo Son , one of Japan’s billionaires. Noam Gerstein, bina’s CEO and founder said: “I’ve interviewed students, teachers and parents globally for years, and it is clear a new systemic design is needed. million to aim at the education of 4- to 12-year-olds.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The Mumbai-headquartered startup has raised $150 million in its Series D financing round from Prosus Ventures and Warburg Pincus. POPxo’s userbase, in the meantime, has ballooned to 88 million users, up from 60 million in July, said Gill in an interview. billion post-money. Four years is a long time in the startup world.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

Later, it scrambled with its product offerings after its marquee service struggled to make inroads, Zelto founder and chief executive Ankit Oberoi told TechCrunch in an interview. Oberoi of Zelto, which has been profitable for several years and raised less than $2.5 The source requested anonymity sharing private information.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 18, 2012

You can view all of the interviews, and subscribe to the show, on iTunes , or on the Big Vision Podcast's landing page. The way they're titled below is how they were listed at the time of the interview. Today is the 6th anniversary of the Big Vision Podcast! Happy listening! Women, Girls, Education and Global Health.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

But with more and more business processes moving online, online job search is the gift that keeps on giving, and so today comes news of another portal in the space raising a big round to take on the incumbents in the space with more innovative and accurate technology. It is also investing the funding in more international expansion.

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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. Another company, Procore, went public in 2021 after raising $75 million at a $3 billion valuation in 2018.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The company announced today that it has raised a $3 million Series A, led by Wavemaker Partners, Vietnamese investment bank Thien Viet Securities and an undisclosed United States-based investor. After they finish their courses, MindX’s career consultants help students build CVs and prepare for job interviews.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2011

She's known for the Pop-Up General Store , Tartine Afterhours dinners , Home Ec Cooking Classes , and the nationwide Bakesale for Japan that raised $140,000. If you have suggestions for people I should interview, please email me at britt AT brittbravo DOT com. workshop at the Writing Salon in Berkeley, CA.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

In an interview with TechCrunch, Sequoia Capital managing director Abheek Anand talked about what drew the firm to Appier , which develops AI-based marketing software. Taiwan’s Appier raises $80M for AI-based marketing technology. are also based in Japan. Louis and Su has a M.S. in computer science from Harvard.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Beam , a Singaporean shared micromobility operator, announced today that it has raised $93 million in a Series B round to accelerate growth into new countries in Asia. Singapore’s micromobility startup Beam raises $26 million. Beam’s MARS technology. This article has been updated to reflect new information from Beam.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

“The use case for all our customers is essentially that they’re all using us to prevent fraud when money is being loaded into a wallet,” CEO and co-founder Soups Ranjan told TechCrunch in an interview. Sardine, which raised a $4.5 or Japan doesn’t really matter,” Ranjan said. Fraud is global.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2022

South Korean startup Bucketplace , which operates a home decorating and interior app OHouse, is looking to continue capitalizing on that trend with its most recent $182 million Series D round, the startup’s co-founder and CEO Jay Lee said on Monday in an interview with TechCrunch. Lee told TechCrunch. billion ( 2 trillion KRW).

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2023

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. After a $200,000 pre-seed round, Fingo got into YC S21 and raised $4 million in seed funding toward the end of that year.” More details here. government.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

More specifically we discussed grass roots fundraising and the rapid growth of online platforms that allow people to raise money for the causes they support. Next, focus on your goals – Are you trying to raise a million dollars or mobilize a group of offline volunteers? Networked Nonprofit – Interview with Allison Fine.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2023

Today, Backpackr, which operates handmade marketplace called idus , has raised a $16 million (20 billion won) extension to its Series C financing, two-and-a-half years after its first Series C, which was $24 million (about 30 billion won). Backpackr said it has raised a total of $56.8 Other countries like Japan and the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2006

I met Laura at Boston Podcamp very briefly and grabbed her card so I could catch up with her for an interview for Blogher. d all raise a lot more awareness and donations. I am great at what I do because I have toured and performed in Europe and Japan and have shared the spotlight with Stevie Wonder. d bet that they???d

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Speak , an English language learning platform with AI-powered features, today announced that it raised $27 million in a Series B funding round led by the OpenAI Startup Fund , with participation from Lachy Groom, Josh Buckley, Justin Mateen, Gokul Rajaram and Founders Fund. ” Image Credits: Speak.

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TechCrunch

JULY 4, 2022

We’ll continue to scale and reduce error rates,” said Ilana Wisby, OQC’s founding CEO, in an interview. And as you might guess from the investor list, it will also be using some of the funds to expand into Asia Pacific, and specifically Japan, to tap would-be customers there in financial services and beyond.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

While North America has been one of the strongest markets for the startup, it also serves clients in Singapore, Southeast Asia, Japan and India. It almost feels like a technology problem,” Manjita said in an interview with TechCrunch. Mason has raised a total of $7.5 Mason’s product dashboard.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Other companies have tried to build a business on exchanging dead batteries for fresh ones to solve the problem of long EV charge times: Fourteen years ago, Better Place raised nearly a billion dollars to do what Ample’s doing, and it ended up declaring bankruptcy. That didn’t deter Ample co-founder John de Souza.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Like many startup founders, Anjali Jindal Naik, co-founder and COO of autonomous sidewalk robot maker Cartken, was raised by entrepreneurs. The following interview, part of an ongoing series with founders who are building transportation companies, has been edited for length and clarity.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

Oceankind’s list of grants shows the organization casting its net widely, funding everything from off-shore wind farms in Japan to cell-based seafood research. One Oceankind project that may raise eyebrows is its funding of research that strays into the controversial area of geoengineering.

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The Verge

AUGUST 13, 2020

For instance, Japan-based Sony paid CEO Kenichiro Yoshida about $4.2 Explicitly talking about race is helping to elevate Black people right now, says Laura Morgan Roberts, a professor of practice at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, in an interview with The Verge. And that framing alone, I think, speaks volumes.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

You’ll find some of those answers below, followed by a large and wide-ranging interview with robotics legend, Rodney Brooks. Over the past several months, I’ve asked dozens of startups how the economic slow down has impacted their ability to raise. Satellite imagery of the Midway Airport in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 7, 2010

A big thanks to the Big Vision podcast listener/Have Fun, Do Good reader, Terez Williamson , who suggested that I interview Laura for this show. I have them in Japan, and I have them in Germany. I remember, after I was interviewed on CNN , and the day after the CNN interview, I had almost 1,000 emails in my inbox.

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