Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Despite slumped sales, stalled supply chains, and looming uncertainty last year, small business owners are positive about 2021. . According to Oracle NetSuite Brainyard’s 2021 Business Leader Survey , around 73% of respondents are positive about this year. Megan O’Brien , business and finance editor NetSuite.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The rapid adoption of digital payments has become a great challenge for finance teams. He worked a Melio, a business-to-business (B2B) payments platform for small companies, where he saw finance teams become the victims of their own success. According to one report , teams spend as much as 40% of their time processing transactions.

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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

FEBRUARY 28, 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. Amazon is letting employees use their stock to finance home purchases and even second homes by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

2020 performance of individual fintech companies vs. SPX Image Credits: CapiQ, Yahoo Finance. Fintech Index, 2016 -2020 Image Credits: CapiQ, Yahoo Finance. The Matrix fintech Index rose 97% in 2020, compared to a 14% rise in the S&P 500 and a 10% drop for the incumbent financial service companies over the same time period.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

Bijan Moallemi, Joe Garafalo and Brian Campbell started San Diego-based Mosaic in 2019 after meeting at Palantir Technologies, where they worked on building out that company’s finance organization to 2,500 people and over $750 million in revenue. We are trying to create a Strategic Finance category. It declined to reveal its valuation.

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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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OurCrowd

AUGUST 19, 2021

August 19, 2021–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Nexa3D, the maker of ultrafast polymer 3D printers, has today announced that it will showcase its end to end 3D printing validated workflow for the first time at RAPID + TCT 2021. VENTURA, Calif., Visitors can find Nexa3D on booth E7428. Read more here.

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Y Combinator

JULY 20, 2021

Given the number of YC companies raising Series As every year, you’ll have an unparalleled understanding of how these financings happen and the early-stage funding ecosystem. This is a great role for someone who is passionate about startups and interested in learning more about them. Learn more.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 11, 2021

YC is hiring across many of our teams, including Admissions, Continuity, Software, People Ops and Finance. Given the number of YC companies raising Series As every year, you’ll have an unparalleled understanding of how these financings happen and the early-stage funding ecosystem. Find out more about the open roles here.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2022

Post-money valuations were inflated by market expectations in 2021, but they were also inflated by the underlying mechanics of the valuation model itself. The miracle year of 2021. For founders, employees and VCs alike, 2021 must’ve seemed like a miracle year. versus 471 a year earlier.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

Bluecopa , an Indian startup building a finance operations automation platform for high-volume companies, has raised $2.3 Bluecopa was founded in 2021 by Chanda and his fellow entrepreneurial teammates Raghavendra Reddy and Satya Prakash Buddhavarapu. million to expand its offering in the global market.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

To help simplify your efforts, we’ve put together a list of the top 2021 marketing trends to help grow your small business. And, in 2021, knowing how to strategically optimize your own PPC helps to generate new leads in an era where digital is key. Upgrade your marketing with small business financing. Expand your reach.

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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

OCTOBER 12, 2022

FlapKap , using its revenue-based financing platform (RBF), is helping these stores solve the growth-destructive challenges emerging online stores encounter when trying to meet customer demands. In 2021, Coucha spent some time in the U.S. million in seed funding to supercharge its efforts. We want to drive growth for them.

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StartupNation

JUNE 16, 2021

Now that we are halfway into 2021, it is time to think about how you can further improve your startup’s operations to guarantee greater success in the latter half of the year. Here are just a few ways to organize and keep your startup’s finances in check: Complete your journal entries. Key takeaways on startup finances.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Open finance continues to be a significant theme in the world of fintech as businesses tap APIs to access customers’ financial accounts and provide a gamut of integrated and embedded financial services. And in Q4 2021, the platform witnessed a 44% month-on-month customer growth and a 72% month-on-month increase in linked financial accounts.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 13, 2022

In fact, ACA members and groups are the most significant source of support for entrepreneurs, investing more than 1 million pro bono hours and $650 million of after-tax financing to more than 3,000 high growth companies annually. 2021 was a year filled with more opportunities for angels to interact and learn.

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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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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 29, 2021

I discovered rhetoric in 2021 and read this book and The Elements of Eloquence which demonstrate the hundreds of literary devices we use to imbue language with flourish to entice or cajole the reader to hurdle over the period at the end of a sentence and sprint through the next, till the end of a tract. Words like Loaded Pistols.

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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

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Fintechs could see $100 billion of liquidity in 2021. Fintech tailwinds, strengthened by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, only accelerated in 2021. Despite a roughly 30% draw-down in the last months of 2021, the Matrix Fintech Index continued to beat the broader market as well as incumbent financial service companies. Matt Brown.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

According to KPMG, total fintech funding worldwide in the first half of 2021 reached $98 billion from 2,456 deals, rebounding strongly from the COVID-inspired investing dip of 2020. For the first half of 2021, Asian fintech funding activity amounted to $7.5 Not surprisingly, the U.S. billion despite the lack of any notably large deals.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

African tech took center stage in 2021. The number of deals in 2021 grew 73% year-on-year from 244 deals in 2020. In 2021, fintech startups got 63% of the continent’s total investments. The Big Deal : African fintech startups received 53% of the total VC funding in 2021; it was 49% in 2020. What was that number in 2021?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Finances, when you’re co-parenting, are an issue even in the most amicable of divorces. Lerer Hippeau, Citi Ventures, Correlation Ventures and Gingerbread Capital also participated in the financing. The Los Angeles-based startup previously raised $3 million in seed funding in March of 2021. Uber alum rakes in $9.7M

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

A year after the FTC blocked Harry’s from getting acquired by Edgewell Personal Care, the direct-to-consumer razor startup raised $155 million in Series E financing to give it a $1.7 million in a new financing event. Early in 2021, it launched its Headquarters hair care line. billion valuation. It recently acquired Lum?,

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

2 bank in loans to companies in the Series A to Series C market, having already allocated over $6 billion in debt financing over the past 4 years to companies such as Crunchbase, Lightspeed and TigerConnect, McQueen said. It’s also now why CIBC can claim it is the No.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

The corporate spend startup launched its bill pay feature in October of 2021, building upon its corporate card business and accounting software product. With the early success of the bill pay feature, Ramp is now adding financing and overlay with a new product called Flex. . The latter appears to be true in Ramp’s case.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

Embed that finance : Pezesha, a Kenyan-based fintech startup, is flush with $11 million in new capital as it seeks to bridge the gap between access to financial products and what is a “$330 billion financing deficit for the small enterprises that make up 90% of Africa’s businesses,” Annie reports. Christine and Haje.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

All these inefficiencies, asides from being time-consuming, lead to errors and affects cash flow and finance, which is why almost nine out of 10 small businesses in the country fizzle out in the first five years. The startup’s new financing round was led by Berlin-based VC Target Global. million in pre-seed funding.

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FundersClub

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Selected recent FundersClub portfolio company follow-on rounds and events: GitLab (NASDAQ: GTLB), a SaaS platform for DevOps, completed a successful public listing on October 14, 2021. Jerry , a consumer app for car insurance, financing, repairs, and more, announced a $75M Series C led by Goodwater Capital.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Had we taken a 30 year self amortizing home equity loan to finance the solar installation, we would be paying $1900 a year in principal and interest payments at current home equity rates. USV TEAM POSTS: Andy Weissman — Jan 26, 2021 USV 2021 Fund.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

Many Southeast Asian digital businesses run into obstacles when seeking early-stage growth financing. That’s where Singapore-based Jenfi comes in, providing revenue-based financing of up to $500,000 with flexible repayment plans that co-founder and chief executive officer Jeffrey Liu refers to as “growth capital as a product.” .

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StartupNation

JUNE 10, 2021

Here are four of the fastest growing businesses you can start from home today that are projected to grow in 2021: Virtual tutoring. If you have mastered a particular area of expertise like finance, HR, marketing, operations or management, opening a consulting firm is a great way to utilize your past experience.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2021

TechCrunch Early Stage 2021: Operations & Fundraising provides early-stage founders with access to top founders, investors and subject-matter experts across the startup realm. Creating and Protecting IP Value in Connection with VC Financings (Perkins Coie). Who’s ready for bootcamp? Don’t miss our special partner sessions.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Fundraising is a huge part of building a successful startup, and whether you’re looking for information about the latest trends, alternative funding or how to fine-tune your pitch to attract investors, you’ll find that and a whole lot more at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 on September 21-23. TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 takes place September 21-23.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2021

We’re excited to announce that Kameale Terry will be joining us at TC Sessions: Mobility 2021 , a one-day virtual event that is scheduled June 9. Workers receive full training, earn two safety licenses, are guaranteed a wage of $30 an hour and receive shares in the startup, Terry said.

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