Investments

• 500 Startups Announces Partnership with Sanabil Investments

  500 Startups announces partnership with Sanabil Investments to launch the Sanabil 500 MENA Seed Accelerator.

• WXR Fund lands $5M to invest in women-led AR, VR, and AI startups

  The WXR Fund, an investment firm with Seattle roots, landed $5 million for its first fund that will back seed-stage women-led startups building AR/VR and AI technologies. Founded in 2019 by Amy…

• Professional Public Relations Agency for AI, blockchain, IoT, cybersecurity, AR/VR startups

  A professional Public Relations agency using AI to help tech startups to get in the news. Committed to Blockchain, AI, Cybersecurity, IoT, AR/VR and 5G

• HTC invests in 26 new AR/VR startups through its Vive X accelerator

  HTC is announcing today that it's investing in 26 new startups in the augmented reality and virtual reality space through its Vive X global accelerator program. The new batch of startups brings the total number of investments to 80 since July 2016. This clearly makes it the world's most active investor in AR and VR.

• How African startups raised investments in 2020 – TechCrunch

  The venture capital scene in Africa has consistently grown, with an influx of capital from local and international investors reaching unprecedented heights in recent years. To understand how much growth has occurred, African startups raised a meagre $400 million in 2015 compared to the $2 billion t…

• COVID-19 hindered fundraising by SC startups, but investments coming back

  South Carolina-based companies were already at a disadvantage in their ability to raise capital, compared to Southern neighbors. Then came COVID-19.

• AR in Healthcare Market Size to Reach $4.23 billion by 2026, With Rise in Number if AR Start-ups Across the Globe

  Growing private & public investments for developing AR technologies in healthcare is likely to propel the growth of AR in healthcare market in the coming years

• Pharrell Williams, Ron Conway Teaming Up for New Venture Fund

  Veteran tech investor and SV Angel founder Ron Conway is working with Grammy Award–winning musician Pharrell Williams to raise a venture capital fund, according to two people familiar with the matter. The new fund aims to make investments in startups led by underrepresented minorities.The pair ...

• Snap debuts its fifth cohort of Yellow accelerator startups – TechCrunch

  Snap's in-house Yellow accelerator program, which invests in startups, has debuted its fifth batch of investments. The company invests $150,000 in each Yellow startup for an equity stake as part of the accelerator program, which first launched in 2018. The startups will receive mentorship fro…

• Estonia has just 1.3 million people, so why are its startups setting investment records? | ZDNet

  Startups in small Baltic state Estonia have attracted over half a billion dollars in investments in just 1.5 years.

• Timeline of Indian startup ecosystem - Wikipedia

  The Indian startup ecosystem originated with software services startups serving Indian software needs, and later expanding to exporting software services. The next generation of Indian product startups had founders who had worked in these services startups, or were moving back from the Silicon Valley, having worked in product startups in the US. Venture capital investments were kicked off by TDICI, a government entity, followed by other investors from Silicon Valley. The third wave of startups were founded in the dot-com era, included marketplaces, e-commerce vendors, and portals. The fourth wave started around 2007-2008, and comprised e-commerce, logistics, marketplaces, and advertising startups.

• Startups learn from hospital investors.

  Benefits of hospitals investing their venture capital in health startups: The startups get more than funds. They get instant feedback on products. Startups can roll out products across a health system rather than marketing door-to-door. Hospitals and systems get first crack at technologies that they have nurtured. Hospitals diversify their investments beyond bonds, stocks and other traditional instruments.

• Lightfield Investments

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