TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Knife Capital , a South African venture capital firm, is raising a $50 million fund for startups looking to raise Series B financing. In 2016, the VC firm launched its current 12J offering with Knife Capital Fund II. These specialized Africa VC funds are welcoming co-investors.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

(co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.). We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” Why are all of the VC home runs from white men, or Asian men in Asia, plus a few Asian men in the U.S.?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

participated in four of Scale’s financing rounds, which is all of them unless you include the funding from YC the company secured as part of a cohort in 2016. In fact, Levine wrote one of the company’s very first checks. So like many great stories that started with a bold, cold email.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

This appointment comes a month after Ayeni left the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, where he led venture capital investments across Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia for over 5 years. “I’ll call it a mid-cap VC fund. It’s not early, and it’s not quite growth.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 18, 2021

(co-written with Stephane Nasser , co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses.). VCs love to talk investment theses: on Twitter, Medium, Clubhouse, at conferences. 36 theses pulled directly from US VC websites by David Teten and Sam Sabin , co-founder, Hireblue. . Technical founders .

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 6, 2016

The startup fundraising market in 2016 has been difficult to characterize. This posts analyses US headquartered information technology companies which VC-led investment rounds, except for the $793M Series C in Magic Leap , which I excluded as an outlier. VCs invested about $2B in January and February 2016.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Female-founded venture firms have shown strong support for female-founded startups accounting for 28% of their deal counts from 2016 to October 2021 in startups with at least one female founder. of all VC funds raised in 2022 to 17.2%—seen as part of a decade-long trend. In contrast, male-only founded U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2016

In 2008 I started VC blogging. In 2016 I finally cracked SnapChat with the launch of Discovery. I started doing SnapStorms, which are short burst of video around a certain startup or financing topic. David Tirazona (@TirazonaD) March 7, 2016. They thought it was like MySpace and why did I need a MySpace page? D7elVkC4XR.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 18, 2021

(co-written with Stephane Nasser , co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses.). VCs love to talk investment theses: on Twitter, Medium, Clubhouse, at conferences. 36 theses pulled directly from US VC websites by David Teten and Sam Sabin , co-founder, Hireblue. . Technical founders .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

These startups offer embedded finance solutions; Maelis Carraro , Catalyst Fund MD, explains the thought process behind this selection in a statement. First off, from Kenya, Koa enables users to save and invest, gaining control over their finances. However, the selected six startups this year are from Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

billion last year — up 153% year-over-year in terms of global VC deal value — and include a range of outfits, from payments companies to digital banks to corporate spend players. Private equity firm Eldridge and Andreessen Horowitz co-led the financing, which also included participation from funds and accounts advised by T.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

When they were ready to scale their commercial operations in 2016, Udesh Jadanansing and his team decided to raise a seed round. More Money, More Money Revenue-based financing (RBF) grants business owners an amount of capital based on their gross revenues. Udesh’s initial reservations about the financing option aren’t uncommon.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Einride today announced a $500 million tranche of financing as it looks to expand its autonomous and electric trucks into new markets globally. The cash injection constitutes an equity-based $200 million Series C portion from backers including Northzone, EQT Ventures, Temasek, Swedish pension fund AMF, Polar Structure, and Norrsken VC.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

And then there are those that do want to raise VC money but don’t want to use it for specific things. Former Goldman Sachs investment banker Marc Helwani founded i80 in 2016 after investing in early-stage New York-based fintechs in 2014-2015 via his VC fund, Avenue A Ventures. At that time, it was still relatively new.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Before becoming a VC firm, Savannah Fund started as an accelerator program in Kenya. However , in 2016, Savannah transitioned into venture capital investing, focusing on seed and Series A stages within $25,000 to $500,000 checks. Startups who got accepted participated in cohorts for three months and received up to $30,000 in funding.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

At first glance, one might think that the WeWork rival, which had raised about $560 million since its 2016 inception, was another casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic. . Virgin Mobile co-founder Amol Sarva and former VC Edward Shenderovich founded Knotel, essentially reversing the WeWork model.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Other notable players in the space include Ÿnsect , a Paris-based startup that has received substantial VC-backing for bug farms , while U.K.-based On top of that, InnovaFood creates organic fertilizers out of insect poop to boost plant and crop growth. Growth industry.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

Existing investors Base10 Partners and Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI-focused VC) also participated. This brings the company’s total financing to $54 million. Launched in 2016, Chili Piper’s software for B2B revenue teams is designed to convert leads into attended meetings.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. I have been researching this both to support Versatile VC ’s portfolio companies and also as part of research for my new book, To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear. 1) Your school.

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Jason Malki

MARCH 20, 2023

She has been in VC for over 12 years and investing in blockchain since 2016, with multiple unicorns and exits. A major trend this year is “refi” or regenerative finance. I had the pleasure of interviewing Nisa Amoils. Nisa is a Managing Partner at A100x Ventures where she, invests in early-stage Blockchain/AI companies.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

“My work with startups and the ecosystem began in 2016 when I founded Startupmedia to help startups and the ecosystem tell their stories and school myself in starting/scaling businesses. For founders opting for VC funding, swift closure of funding rounds is advised to maintain focus on product development.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

How to make a deal with a VC at a tech conference. His previous company, Uhana, launched in 2016, was backed by NEA and had been acquired by VMWare in three years. In 2016, total VC investments in the U.S. Pandemic reset leads investors to focus on resilience, adaptability. were about $80 billion.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

Their backgrounds, according to Ayele, run the gamut from finance and marketing to product and technology across a range of sectors. “We’ve built an algorithm-based matching platform where we curate relevant deals to VC investors. The company has made significant strides since launching in 2016. for law school.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

Lemann and Saggioro met in 2016 when Lemann was an angel investor and Saggioro was testing different business models at Harvard. What united them was the realization that not only was technology going to be a disruptor and innovator in Latin America, but also that there was not much capital committed to finance companies in the early stages.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

Matias Lonardi, co-founder and CEO of Treggo, started the company with Nicolas Torchio and Joaquin Wagner in 2016. In addition, it is also providing an embedded finance feature for its independent driver network to give them cash in advance. 99minutos clocks in fresh capital for logistics infrastructure in Latin America.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Everything we build at Vendease — financing, logistics, warehousing, inventory management — is tailored towards ensuring that food flows efficiently from that point of production to the point of consumption.”. So far, businesses have accessed more than $12 million worth of inventory via the embedded finance product.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

This week, I covered Zeta, a new startup working on joint finances for modern couples. Here’s what I learned : The success of Zeta hinges on the idea that people want to share their finances in an ongoing and meaningful way, and that the world of finance is ready to shift from individualism to collectivism earlier and louder.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

million in a Series A round led by Silicon Valley VC firm Ribbit Capital. Kaszek Ventures, QED Investors and Greenoaks Capital also participated in the financing, which brings the startup’s total raised to $36.7 Cora , a São Paulo-based technology-enabled lender to small-and-medium-sized businesses, has raised $26.7

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

While Cauris provided debt financing, Tiger Global and JAM Fund, the investment firm of Tinder co-founder Justin Mateen co-led the equity bit. Other VC firms involved in the equity round include Kinfolk, Soma Capital, Ingressive Capital and Magic Fund. The seed round was a mix of $7 million equity and $10 million debt.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Founded in 2014, Blossom Finance was first intended for Muslim entrepreneurs in the United States. But founder Matthew Joseph Martin soon realized that the startup, backed by investors like Boost VC and Tim Draper, was serving a relatively niche market in the States. Meanwhile in Malaysia, where 61.3% out of its 33.6

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

Merchants also struggle to access finance to perform cross-border trade in the continent. Tonye Membere-Otaji thought about the idea for MVX in 2016. In 2019, Membere-Otaji finally launched the company with CTO Tobi Amusan after securing a $100,000 pre-seed investment from Oui Capital , a pan-African VC firm.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Without further ado, here are the five judges who will pick the 2021 Startup Battlefield winner: Kirsten Green is the founder and managing partner of Forerunner Ventures, a San Francisco-based VC firm she formed in 2010. While at Pinterest she helped it expand internationally, close its Series C financing and led three acquisitions.

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Haystack

OCTOBER 13, 2019

At the end of 2016, folks in the startup tech ecosystem looked toward 2017’s impending “uncertainty.” Yet, looking back, not much changed — there’s more money than every in the early-stage ecosystem, bigger financing rounds, large private pre-IPO growth rounds, and much more.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

In a sign that pure equity financing is getting harder to come by, cybersecurity firm Arctic Wolf , which last July raised $150 million at triple its previous valuation ($4.3 billion), funding to VC-backed cybersecurity startups isn’t on pace to hit last year’s high (over $23 billion). raised close to $15.9 billion of debt.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

The influence of logistical operations on products leads to various problems for operators, from inconsistent pricing, which stems from a fragmented supply and demand market, to paper documentation and little or no access to financing. Google’s Africa Investment Fund makes first investment in Uganda’s SafeBoda.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

They include EQT Ventures, Atomico, strategic backer Volvo Car Tech Fund, Lifeline Ventures and Tesi, the Finnish government VC and PE fund; with new backers Mirabaud and Foxconn also participating. “We are very fond of what we do at this size,” he said. “There are great benefits to independence.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

million that was raised in a seed round led by Brick & Mortar Ventures and First Round Capital – to advance on its effort to “reimagine construction finance.” Accel and Lightrock India co-led the Bengaluru-headquartered startup’s Series C financing round, reports Manish Singh, our man on the ground in the country. Love to see it!

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