TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

million in equity and $25 million in debt financing. The company, formerly known as ViveFácil, started in 2021 providing insurance, similar to a Jetty or Rhino , but for Mexico, Merullo told TechCrunch. Merullo plans to use the debt portion of the new funding for loans and financings issued. The funding round was a mix of $1.5

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Bold , a technology company working to enable financial access to electronic payments in Colombia, has raised $55 million in a Series B funding round led by Tiger Global Management. Then in the first quarter of 2021, it began offering a “pay-by-link” service as well. Bold ended 2021 with more than 100,000 merchants using its services.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Managing your finances can be difficult, especially if you want to try something new like investing or even taking out a mortgage for the first time. It’s developing a finance super app that is bringing together what founder and CEO Robert Cornish calls “the best of fintech for the customer.”

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 19, 2022

In 2021, many YC founders led their companies to achieve outstanding results, and we are honored to be part of these companies’ history. billion in 2021, per Crunchbase data , with more than 17,000 startups around the world raising funding at seed. Of course, YC itself remained remote during 2021, as did all of our programs.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 16, 2022

David Toh from Mirana Ventures, Venture Partner of Bybit and BitDAO, said, “As an early supporter and investor of Treehouse, we are excited by the growth of the company and what the team has achieved in a short time. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

Beam Impact , a company that enables consumers to turn their spending into a way to support social causes, has raised $13.3 The company’s B2B2C model connects consumers with brands that are supporting social causes and allows them to donate a portion of their purchases to a nonprofit of their choice, at no cost to them.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Funding supports innovative technology companies that are taking community banks into the future. We are passionate about finding the best companies to support the future of community banking, so they can thrive and continue to enable and support their customers and communities,” says Ransom.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 14, 2022

More debt financings means flat is the new up. Last week, I wrote about Founderpath , an Austin-based company that offers debt financing to B2B startups. On August 8, Mexico City–based expense management startup Clara announced it had been approved for financing from Goldman Sachs for up to $150 million. Here in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

raised more money from venture capitalists in 2021 than ever. But according to data from PitchBook, less than 2% of VC funding went to all-women-founded teams in 2021. On the bright side, founding teams counting both women and men as members raised 17% of VC investments in Africa in 2021. raise in 2021. as yesterday!

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Impact Hub

APRIL 26, 2021

Jordan, 23 April, 2021 – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in its efforts to assist the social enterprise policy process in Jordan, led by the Ministry of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship (MoDEE), organised a workshop in collaboration with Impact Hub.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

2021 saw phenomenal returns for our industry and it topped off more than a decade of unprecedented VC growth. Since 2021, Upfront returned more than $600 million to LPs and returned more than $1 billion since 2018. Thank you to everybody in the community who has supported us all these years. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

For Part 1 on The Equity Seller’s Bubble of 2021, click here to access the ACA Data Insights Archive. Several top-tier funds recently redefined themselves as “investment advisors,” enabling them to place long-term bets by holding rather than distributing IPO shares. From VCs to Investment Advisors… and back again? to 18.2x.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

M-KOPA’s financing platform has proved helpful to this set of users since launching as an energy provider in 2011. The company, which enables underbanked customers in select African markets to access a broad range of products and services without collateral or a guarantor, announced today that it has raised $75 million.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 16, 2023

Atome Financial, a prominent consumer financing platform in Southeast Asia, empowers consumers across the region with versatile deferred payment options, intelligent savings solutions, and rewarding shopping experiences through its mobile application, Atome. According to the Senate Economic Planning Office, as of 2021, approximately 34.3

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

a wholly owned subsidiary of Fortescue, a global green technology, energy and metals company,has chosen Dover, Delaware, to base its operations to support global decarbonization and establishment of the hydrogen economy. February 26, 2024 ) – FFI Ionix Inc., Christiansen. About FFI Ionix FFI Ionix Inc.

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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

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Terms of the deal were not disclosed but it’s understood Spherics had raised £1.25m in equity financing from angel investors and £300,000 in grants. Sage had previously stated it plans to support SMEs to get to net zero, and this acquisition appears to be part of their strategy.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

Mizuho Bank and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group also joined in its debt financing. Conversational commerce, a term coined by former Uber employee Chris Messina in 2015 , enables online businesses to sell their products and services through messaging and chat apps like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 19, 2022

In 2021, many YC founders led their companies to achieve outstanding results, and we are honored to be part of these companies’ history. billion in 2021, per Crunchbase data , with more than 17,000 startups around the world raising funding at seed. Of course, YC itself remained remote during 2021, as did all of our programs.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

The country makes far too much money from oil, giving it one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds and a large system of socialized support. This offer is only available to readers in Europe and expires on April 30, 2021. Leading support and growth financing initiatives: Innovation Norway, funds, etc.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 19, 2023

“We are humbled by the overwhelming support from our investors, rural bank partners, and loyal users. It was very fulfilling to see how digitalization has helped our rural bank partners to thrive during the pandemic recovery period and enabled our loyal users to access attractive deposit and loan products digitally.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

There’s a growing market for private cellular networks, or dedicated cell networks configured to support a company’s specific requirements within a confined area (think a warehouse or wind farm). billion in 2021. A separate report from ABI Research estimates that the market for 5G private networks will reach $47.5

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

raised approximately $7 billion in 2021 , up 59% year over year. 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. In contrast, male-only founded U.S. billion of total venture capital.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

Egyptian fintech Paymob , which enables merchants to accept digital payments online and in-store, announced today it has raised $50 million in Series B funding. These different options include bank cards, mobile wallets, QR payments, bank cards’ installments, BNPL, and consumer finance payment options.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

This in turn enables them to collect, send or exchange money in real time without the need for reconciliation and with almost no cost,” Rozic told TechCrunch. It plans to grow the network by building out a full self-service tool for publishing and moving money to organizations that will support one-click purchases, payouts and collections.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 28, 2023

June 26, 2023 ) – Blindsight Delaware Enterprises (BSDE), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit social business enterprise founded in 2021, has chosen Wilmington, Delaware, as the site for a $2.3 The City stands ready to support this effort in any way that we can, and we wish BlindSight Delaware Enterprises much success.” WILMINGTON, Del.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 12, 2022

In 2021, we extended a grant to Grand Valley State University’s Veterans Entrepreneurship Lab. In 2021, we also established a partnership between Verizon’s Pro Bono Program and the Metro Detroit Black Business Alliance ’s Capital Connect Program. Veterans and/or military spouses work on their business launch over a three-month period.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

Brick and other fintechs have benefited from strong support from Indonesian regulators. It also laid out implementation timelines for open APIs, beginning with payment initiation APIs in 2021, which Brick will launch later this year. A diagram showing Brick’s financial API offerings. Visa is acquiring Plaid for $5.3

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

In a statement, Luke Sarsfield, co-head of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, said: “Employers are looking to provide their employees tailored solutions and customizable advice that can better support individual saving and investing needs to help improve retirement savings outcomes. That deal closed last week. Fast slows its roll.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

These plans also include enabling the digitization of traditional insurers as innovation continues to shape the industry. Lami’s approach to serving people through strategic partners in e-commerce and finance is the best way to build trust with users and deliver insurance in a seamless, accessible way to Africans across the continent.”.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Register India’s SaaS-based logistics management platform Shipsy has secured US$25 million funding in its Series B financing round led by Z3 Partners and A91 Partners along with participation from Sequoia Capital India’s Surge. It enables real-time data processing and provides you with live alerts using scalable machine learning models.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Customers have a natural tendency to prefer voice call support over other self-service channels and this has led to the increase in pressure on the traditional interactive voice responses (IVR) systems and support agents to respond to all incoming queries,” he said. Skit has been listed in Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia start-ups 2021.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

“Most of the companies we have seen have an AI component to support the discovery or development processes,” Francisco Dopazo, a general partner at Humboldt Fund told TechCrunch recently. The NASDAQ Biotechnology Index peaked in 2021. Still, the majority of biotechs raising capital are not “AI-enabled.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

Ghanaian e-logistics startup Jetstream Africa is on the list, and today, it’s announcing that it has secured $13 million in equity and debt pre-Series A financing. . We simplified our business into just the import-export product line by directly them with a combination of trade financing and logistics.”.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Gredu Parents enables parents and guardians to keep track of their kids’ performance and talk to teachers. Gredu launched an Online Assignment feature before COVID-19 and during the pandemic, it added Interactive Class to enable remote learning. The 2021 edtech avalanche has just begun.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The Avalanche Foundation completed the private sale back in June 2021 and is disclosing it today. Proceeds from the private sale will be used to support the Avalanche ecosystem, which is relatively nascent when you compare it to the Ethereum blockchain, for instance. Polychain and Three Arrows Capital are leading the investment.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Initially, Canals and Fleischmann started Migrante MVP to address this issue and give them support as they joined the workforce. We saw a huge opportunity to support immigrants,” Canals told TechCrunch. “We We saw a huge opportunity to support immigrants,” Canals told TechCrunch. “We

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