TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

One clear differentiator is that the company functions as an enabler (at payment rails and the core infrastructure) within banking and payments. It went live with its mobile and internet banking service in 2016 and launched an instant card issuance product in 2017. Appzone clearly plays a different game from other African fintechs.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Veev, a real estate developer turned tech-enabled homebuilder, announced today that it has raised $400 million a Series D round that propels the company to “unicorn status.” ” The financing brings the San Mateo, California-based company’s total raised since its 2008 inception to $600 million.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

The quest to disrupt the traditional baby food aisle continues as more of today’s parents seek out nutritional food for their children. The new financing gives Little Spoon $73 million in total funding since it was founded in 2017 by Lisa Barnett, Ben Lewis, Michelle Muller and Angela Vranich.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

A wave of disruption of digitizing informal retail stores is sweeping across emerging markets this year, and Chari is joining in on the action. Lemonade Finance (Nigeria). In another digital banking play, Lemonade Finance provides multi-currency accounts for these migrants to enable seamless transactions and banking.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

And today, San Francisco-based Honor has announced that it has raised $70 million in Series E funding and $300 million in debt financing, bringing its valuation to over $1.25 Baillie Gifford led the equity financing, which brings Honor’s total equity raised to $325 million since its 2014 inception. Rowe Price Associates Inc.,

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Monzo’s culture of customer obsession allowed it to use the crisis to thoughtfully build a beloved consumer and SMB product that has changed personal finance in the UK. This includes storing money, sending and receiving payments, paying friends, budgeting their finances, and accessing capital via overdrafts and buy-now-pay-later (BNPL).

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2021

Swvl was founded by Mostafa Kandil, Mahmoud Nouh and Ahmed Sabbah in 2017. Its services, mainly bus-hailing, enables users to make intra-state journeys by booking seats on buses running a fixed route. The deal will see Swvl valued at roughly $1.5

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Finishing is the ripest for disruption. As of February 2017, nearly 200,000 construction jobs were left unfilled across the U.S., AI has also begun to play a bigger role in the construction supply chain, production scheduling, labor management, insurance and financing, risk assessment etc.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2022

“Company disrupted an existing industry with a new business model, has been doing well for a while, and is now raising more money to do more of the same, except more” is hard to tell a compelling story around. Especially when that — albeit with slightly smaller numbers — was also the story back in 2017.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

That spells opportunity for companies that are enabling that adoption. The company has raised £175 million ($230 million at today’s conversion rates), from a single investor, the PE firm Apax Partners. The growth of e-commerce and other services on digital platforms has further spurred that trend.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Frustrated with only helping the rich get richer, the pair founded Titan in 2017 with the goal of disrupting what they viewed as “an archaic industry. Eventually, we can enable them to build their own investment products on Titan.” “But we realized they did not have the same access to investing that the wealthier did.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

“When we launched FintechOS in 2017, we could already see existing solutions to digital transformation would struggle to deliver tangible results. This is “low code,” but it typically means that the company needs to work with third parties to enable all of this.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

That’s the message from Quiq, an AI-powered conversational platform, which today revealed that it closed a $25 million series C financing round led by Baird Capital. “Phone calls are disruptive and time consuming, email is slow and impersonal. . Chatbots are alive and kicking. human) setups.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

The Kauffman Foundation found 47% of US tech founders held degrees in STEM while 34% held degrees in business, finance, and accounting. Next36 focuses on supporting students and recent grads launching their startups, while Next AI supports AI-enabled ventures looking to disrupt industries. . Some schools run their own (e.g.,

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 8, 2023

Instead, three nuclear superpowers (USA, Russia, and China) are sparring against each other on the physical battlefield through proxies (Ukraine), in cyberspace , in finance via sanctions , in semiconductors via virtual embargos, in space via satellites , and in mental health (largely via social media). Norway, the US, and the UK).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

While I think BNPL is disruptive, here to stay and might be helpful to many consumers and merchants alike – there’s no denying that it is still a form of debt and those who lack self-discipline could easily find themselves spending beyond their means and in over their heads. – and there were others we didn’t get to. Brick closed an $8.5M

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Monzo’s culture of customer obsession allowed it to use the crisis to thoughtfully build a beloved consumer and SMB product that has changed personal finance in the UK. Eventually, this will extend into wealth generation tools to help customers grow their finances. This did not happen by magic. Venmo) or split the bill (e.g.,

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 21, 2021

In 2017, after working for 1.5 There are no toolkits, no (strict) design guidelines, no single way of doing the job, and no bureaucracy… enabling decision-making simple. years in India’s top service-based org- Infosys, I had realized that I wanted to do something different with my career. I love this aspect the most.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

In more than a decade of writing about the Internet and tech-enabled businesses I’ve learned that mobs don’t do nuance well. Currencies only began in earnest about 2,500 years ago and ever since have been a great enabler of democracy and social mobility, not the other way around. So Where Do I Personally Net Out?

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. This is a summary of: Revenue-Based financing: State of the Industry 2020. As of summer 2017, about one third of their investments were with the Indie.VC IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing? V2 structure. .

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. This is a summary of: Revenue-Based financing: State of the Industry 2020. As of summer 2017, about one third of their investments were with the Indie.VC IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing? V2 structure. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

“We need to reform stock options so that they become a tool in order to compete internationally for talent,” he says, noting that the idea is to enable Spain to compete with regimes already offered by countries elsewhere in Europe, such as the U.K., France and Germany.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Launched by startup SmartLabs in 2005, Insteon at one point had an agreement with Microsoft to sell its kits at Microsoft Store locations and was one of the two launch partners for Apple’s HomeKit platform, with the HomeKit-enabled Insteon Hub Pro. Sebastian Thrun at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2017. Kitty Hawk.

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