TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

But at TechCrunch Disrupt, where Adventr is one of 20 startups competing in Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield, founder and CEO Harris unveiled an element of the product that will set Adventr apart: a patented voice-control technology that lets users dictate the course of a video. ” Image Credits: Adventr.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

Supply chain disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine is driving increased costs of goods and services, affecting not only the industrial sector (e.g., The platform helps from research to ordering and enables buyers to source their food and agriculture items at reasonable prices in more than 150 countries.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Specifically, Sequoia participated in Klarna’s $800 million financing ; Yokoy’s $80 million Series B; Telda’s $20 million seed round ; and Cococart’s $4 million seed financing. Now, we know that investments in fintech companies were far lower in 2022 compared to 2021. I wrote about MagicCube in 2021 here.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 7, 2021

By: Sarah Dickey, ACA Membership Director The prestigious Luis Villalobos Award, recognizing the most ingenious and innovative ideas recently financed by members of the Angel Capital Association, was recently awarded to two ACA member-funded companies disrupting their fields.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The investment and finance industry is no exception. Technology such as AI has digitized the finance sector, ranging from payments and remittances to lending. Akros Technologies wants to disrupt the current asset management industry via its AI-driven asset management software platform that mines market data for stocks.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

This offer is only available to readers in Europe and expires on April 30, 2021. The solution enables podcasters to edit their recordings with the click of a button, as a sort of digital audio technician in your pocket. Leading support and growth financing initiatives: Innovation Norway, funds, etc.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Since the February seed round, Unybrands said it closed on multiple acquisitions in both the United States and Europe, and along with more in the works, will put the company on track to beat its 2021 projections of completing 20 deals. E-commerce roll-ups are the next wave of disruption in consumer packaged goods.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Koa is one of 20 companies competing for $100,000 and the Disrupt cup in this week’s TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield competition. Since beta launching in April 2021, the company has onboarded around 5,000 customers who use its savings product.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 6, 2022

In conjunction with the launch, TC Ventures announces its first two partnerships: an angel investment in Turtle in late 2021 and a seed investment in Everimpact in early 2022. Founded by Isabelle Rickmers, the company’s mission is to enable data driven recruitment decisions at global scale and to provide seafarers with a safe home.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

million seed round to further its insurance payments platform that combines financing, collections and payables. Wynn started the company in January 2021 with his co-founder Praveen Chekuri after working together at Instacart. Ascend on Wednesday announced a $5.5 They want all of their money up front so they can invest it. Ascend app.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

But with 2021 came all the second- and third-order effects of the crisis, further accelerating a continentwide tech expansion to a pace beyond any projections. in 2021 from 2.3% Atlantico Digital Transformation Index 2021 LatAm. Total unicorn market cap 2021 LatAm. in 2020 for LatAm as of August. Image Credits: Atlantico.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

The company decided to develop secured loans for products that enable borrowers to improve their income — like motorcycles, cars and trucks — and unlike their competitors providing used vehicles, Canals said Migrante offers new vehicles. They can provide financing at the point of sale,” Silva Lombardi added.

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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

AUGUST 12, 2021

Wonder Brands co-founders Nicolás Gonzalez Luna and Federico Malek came together to start the company in January 2021 to acquire digital brands in the MercadoLibre and Amazon ecosystem. With its approach, the company’s goal is to enable its acquired companies to sell on multiple channels.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Thepeer isn’t a pure fintech play; it sits at the intersection of data and finance. However, the problems Kosisochukwu Chike Ononye and Michael ‘Trojan’ Okoh wanted to solve when they first launched the company in August 2021 affected fintechs more than any other segment.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Y Combinator’s summer batch of 2021 features 377 startups from 47 countries. 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). It was founded by Alessandra Martini and Perseus Mlambo in 2021.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

But the company will end 2021 with revenues close to 2x its pre-pandemic peak, in spite of continued low interest rates, reduced travel, and depressed pandemic spending. 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.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

The pandemic dramatically accelerated banks’ interest in further digitizing the retail lending experience and offering additional buy now, pay later financing options with the rise of e-commerce,” Hughes, former president and COO at Avant, told TechCrunch. Avant doubles down on digital banking with Zero Financial acquisition.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

The idea that got to me was that we were allowing people to invest in the long term, we enable them to invest in instruments they didn’t have access to before,” said Pedro Pineda, co-founder and CEO of Fintual. For Pineda, disrupting the financial sector also seemed like a lot of fun, he thought. “I May 2021. 480.7

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Check Point Research reports that global cyberattacks increased by 38% in 2022 compared to 2021, and nearly nine in ten company boards told Gartner in a recent survey that they view cybersecurity as a “business risk” rather than solely a technical or IT issue. .” billion in 2022, according to Momentum Cyber.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Elana Berkowitz is a founding partner of Springbank Collective , which invests in early stage companies building the infrastructure to enable working women and families to thrive across career, care and household consumers. That means they required a lot of upfront venture capital investment to disrupt their respective markets.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

The funding comes just months after São Paulo-based Mercado Bitcoin’s Series A round (of an undisclosed amount) in January of 2021, which was co-led by G2D/GP Investments and Parallax Ventures, with participation from HS Investimentos , Gear Ventures, Évora and Genial. JPMorgan and DealMake. Image Credits: Mercado Bitcoin.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

A spokesperson told me via email that “the reorganization impacted nearly all teams and the decision was in service to the larger strategy we have been enacting at Notarize, and will enable us to move faster to best serve our customers.” How can finance-focused proptech startups survive the downturn? Our TC+ recap has the highlights.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

COVID-19 disrupted virtually every sector of the transportation industry. What sectors will recover in 2021 and where are the new and unlikely opportunities to invest? At the Urban Innovation Fund, we are spending a lot of time looking at software tools that enable larger hardware systems to work more efficiently.

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OurCrowd

MAY 7, 2021

Treedom, based in Italy, enables consumers and corporations to plant trees and track their environmental impact with the click of a button. By financing small agroforestry projects, Treedom provides income opportunities for local farming communities in 17 countries. Treedom has already planted 1.8M Register Here. Top Tech News.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Experts say Africa is poised to be disrupted by web3 in a similar fashion that has seen Southeast Asia become one of the best markets for web3. The company said this would enable students to explore opportunities in play-to-earn gaming and decentralized finance (DeFi). million in seed funding.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

Today, the concept has made its way into the Middle East and Africa as Opontia has closed a financing of $20 million to acquire and scale e-commerce brands across the regions. This seed round, one of the largest in the Middle East and Africa, is a mix of debt and equity financing.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

Last week, Paystand — a blockchain-enabled B2B payments startup — announced it had acquired Mexican fintech Yaydoo — creating a new unicorn in the resulting new entity. has a legacy, centralized financial infrastructure that needs to be disrupted and re-imagined by fintechs with blockchain technology. and Mexico. and Mexico.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2023

Unique about the program, according to Better.com, is that employees will have the ability to finance their homes without actually selling their shares, only needing to pledge vested equity. Weekly News Reports Romain Dillet: “The all-in-one fintech app Revolut has released its annual report for 2021.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Alice Deng and Lawrence Murata were working at artificial intelligence companies when they found inspiration from their respective family’s businesses to create Slope , which enables businesses an easy way to offer buy now, pay later services. Slope, how it works. Image Credits: Slope.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

At Qumra, we get excited about companies that disrupt traditional industries while doing good and improving quality of life. Our portfolio includes some great examples such as Fiverr that has disrupted the labor market by unlocking the global talent pool, or Talkspace, which is providing access to therapy to all. More than 50%?

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Another example is Market Finance, a tech-enabled SME lender in the U.K., which needs lending capital to finance loans. As Ido Vigdor, general partner at Viola Credit, says: “There is a disruption happening in financial services. In 2021, fintech lenders originated more than $120 billion in loans.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2023

At one point (in early 2021), Brex was in fact thinking of becoming a bank itself, going as far as to apply for a bank charter , before later withdrawing that application. Here are some takeaways from that interview: It is still hard to start a business, and there is still too little cross-border finance, and Stripe is helping with that.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Just over $15 billion went into startups in 2021 , according to LAVCA. Venture capital continues to flow into Latin America at a staggering rate. That was three times more than the association recorded in fiscal year 2019. market in the verticals of e-commerce, marketplaces, fintech and software.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

set in January 2021. billion (a round that reportedly actually closed in December 2021 but not announced until now). That means in March of 2021, right before it closed on its Series B, the startup was actually still valued at $72 million. Nigerian fintech Grey Finance got backing from Y Combinator. Brick closed an $8.5M

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Brex co-CEO and Henrique Dubugras admitted as much onstage at Disrupt.) Fintech was hot in 2021, but looking back on it … maybe too hot? market “will enable it to empower far more financial institutions to extend their payments capabilities.”. Ocho wants to rethink (and rebrand) personal finance for business owners.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 26, 2021

market cap, ~25X forecast 2021 revenues, has focused attention on plant-based milk. Ripple projects 40% YoY revenue growth in 2021 and its gross margins are improving. OurCrowd invites you to join us at Israeli Energy-Tech All Stars 2021 hosted by our partner Ignite The Spark, an Israeli Energy-Tech innovation community.

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