Browsing: Venture

Since 2015, Sellan insurtech based in Kenya, wants to increase access to agricultural insurance by smallholder farmers across emerging markets, protecting them against losses from pests,…

The valuation of social networking startup ShareChat has fallen below $2 billion from nearly $5 billion after a new round of funding, a source familiar with…

Danish startup is looking to help R&D teams automate lab experiments that require visual inspections, raising $20 million in a Series A funding round to scale…

When Josh Silverman started shopping around the idea for his methane-eating microbe startup, Windfall Bio, eight years ago, the market just wasn’t ready. No one cared…

Nearly 20 years after finding success helping startups build products, Canadian interface design firm Metalab it has started Metalab Ventures to invest in many of these…

When it comes to news we love at TechCrunch, IPOs rank very high. Another great piece of news that comes around less often than we’d like…

If you ask investors to name the biggest challenge facing venture capital today, you’ll likely get a near-unanimous answer: lack of liquidity. Despite investments in startups…

Business side programs have exploded in the last couple of years. While some firms have used the surge in activity to build their positions in their…

Brazilian startup Salvyan enterprise mobile company, was the only company based in Latin America in Y Combinator’s latest batch, the accelerator confirmed to TechCrunch. This is…

Global demand for wood could increase by 54% between 2010 and 2050, according to a study by World Resources Institute. While some building materials like steel…