TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Embedded finance — the idea of offering financial products where customers are already congregating via white label solutions and APIs – isn’t an entirely new concept. Leading the round is Force over Mass, and VR Ventures. Liberis, the embedded finance provider for SMEs, raises additional £70M in debt.

financing 97

financing finance startup venture capital 97

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

NFX and existing backers Pear and Mexico-based Wollef (formely known as Jaguar Ventures) doubled down on their investment, which values Melonn “in the neighborhood” of $100 million post-money and brings the Bogota-based startup’s total raised to $24 million since its November 2020 inception. So, just how does it work? “QED

enablement 97

enablement startup incumbents transportation 97

David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

Almost every private equity and venture capital investor now advertises that they have a platform to support their portfolio companies. As an agenda for each meeting, I suggest: – How can we most add value, in addition to helping with financing? All content is developed and delivered by the Real Ventures partners.

venture capital 56

venture capital accelerator capital ventures 56

TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2021

On Tuesday, DeHaat , an online platform that offers full-stack agricultural services to farmers, said it has raised $30 million in a new financing round as the Indian firm looks to maintain its accelerated growth despite the pandemic. We wrote about DeHaat last year, when it had raised a $12 million financing round.

ventures 112

ventures investing investment startup 112

TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Nigerian startup Xend Finance uses decentralized finance (DeFi) to address currency devaluation. This gave birth to Xend Finance.” Not only is Xend Finance trying to protect credit unions from fluctuation, but it is also changing how they operate. Image Credits: Xend Finance. Image Credits: Xend Finance.

financing 104

financing finance incubation opportunity 104

AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Register Headquarters , a Singapore-based finance dashboard for Web3 teams , has announced raising $5 million in a pre-Seed funding round co-led by Crypto.com Capital , Forge Ventures, and MassMutual Ventures. We built HQ Teams to make finance best practices less exhausting by taking out the tedious manual work.

financing 52

financing finance incubation accelerator 52

HPA

MARCH 21, 2024

HPA is excited to announce our investment in Fuel Me ’s $18M Series A Round , which was co-led by Pritzker Group Venture Capital and Tribeca Venture Partners and includes co-investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Interplay Venture Capital, and FJ Labs.

data analysis 91

data analysis energy construction transportation 91

TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

When Keto Kitchen had good sales in the first quarter, Meyer went to the bank to ask for expansion financing and recalled the banker asking him what a ghost kitchen was. That told him there was an opportunity for a data-driven financing tool for these types of restaurants. The project is backed by Kelli Jones of Sixty8 Capital.

financing 95

financing finance capital mix-use 95

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. It claims that merchants supported by Bold have seen sales grow about 25% on average simply by enabling digital payments. . “If

enablement 87

enablement opportunity capital accelerator 87

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Q-CTRL , a Sydney-based startup that provides quantum control engineering solutions, announced today it has raised a $25 million Series B led by Airbus Ventures with participation from Ridgeline Partners, Main Sequence Ventures, Horizons Ventures, SquarePeg Capital, Sierra Ventures, DCVC, Sequoia Capital China and InQTel. .

ventures 77

ventures accelerator startup enablement 77

TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

In a bid to position its brand as more tech-forward — and, in the process, foster new culinary innovations — Chipotle today announced the launch of Cultivate Next, a venture fund run by Curt Garner, the restaurant chain’s chief technology officer. Venture funds alone put more than $39.3

ventures 85

ventures accelerator innovation sustainability 85

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Nima Wedlake, principal at Thomvest Ventures, agreed, noting that agility is a critical trait. Nima Wedlake , principal, Thomvest Ventures. Startups that survive this period will adapt their product offerings to meet the needs of today’s homeowners and buyers,” he said. We spoke with: Pete Flint , general partner, NFX.

financing 90

financing finance real estate startup 90

TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

Other investors in the extension include Valo Ventures, SOSV, Far Eastern Group’s corporate venture arm Drive Catalyst, Alante Capital and S Cap. Novoloop’s proprietary ATOD (Accelerated Thermal Oxidative Decomposition) technology enables plastic waste like polyethylene to transform into high-performance chemicals and materials.

accelerator 99

accelerator startup energy construction 99

AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 6, 2022

Register Transport Capital , a globally-recognised investment management and advisory firm focused on the maritime and aviation industries, has launched its new venture capital arm named TC Ventures. TC Ventures invites founders around the world who are seeking to disrupt and reimagine the maritime and aviation industries to connect.

ventures 52

ventures investing investment transportation 52

American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

March 5, 2024) – The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) held the first in-person meeting of the Diversity Finance Advisory Board (DFAB) last week, bringing together a diverse group of investors, entrepreneurs, and mentors for presentations and networking sessions.

board 40

board financing finance entrepreneurs 40

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Bengaluru-based artificial intelligence SaaS voice automation company Skit, formerly known as Vernacular.ai, developed its AI-based voice automation platform VIVA, short for Vernacular Intelligent Voice Assistant, which enables corporations to automate 90% of their call center operations powered by Natural Language Understanding (NLU) technology.

accelerator 105

accelerator capital SaaS financing 105

American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 13, 2023

million Series B growth financing led by ABS Capital Partners with participation from existing investors Claritas Health Ventures, as well as Healthworx, the innovation and investment arm of CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, PTX Capital, and Kapor Capital. Medication nonadherence is a $500 billion challenge in the U.S.

health 40

health financing finance capital 40

TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

They include high-profile crypto and web3 investors such as Coinbase Ventures, Alameda Research (FTX) and Distributed Global. We are pleased to partner with MARA as it embarks on building a digital financial system for Sub-Saharan Africa,” says Schuster Tanger, co-founder of TQ Ventures, one of the investors, in a statement.

ventures 97

ventures sustainability incubation technology 97

AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Register Virtual events platform Airmeet has secured US$35 million in funding in its Series B financing round led by Prosus Ventures , Sequoia Capital India , and Sistema Asia Fund. Airmeet has enabled over 120,000 event organizers to stream 150 million minutes of video airtime across the globe.

ventures 59

ventures capital education accelerator 59

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The funds will also be used to extend vehicle financing credit to over 100,000 drivers in the next two years. The startup introduced vehicle financing in 2018, and in just over two years, CFO Guy-Bertrand Njoya told TechCrunch, the churn rate by drivers affiliated to them has crashed to “close to zero.”. “We

transportation 143

transportation startup financing finance 143

American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

New investors Sanofi Ventures, Medical Excellence Capital, and Astellas Venture Management join syndicate with founder RA Capital Management Funding supports advancing multiple first-in-class degrader pipeline programs for the treatment of autoimmune, neurological, and other diseases driven by pathogenic extracellular proteins WALTHAM, Mass.,

financing 40

financing finance incubation board 40

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Andreessen Horowitz, Giant Ventures, Blue Horizon, Thia Ventures and other venture funds active in decarbonization were part of the investment. Andreessen Horowitz, Giant Ventures, Blue Horizon, Thia Ventures and other venture funds active in decarbonization were part of the investment.

construction 99

construction financing finance accelerator 99

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

So instead of going out and raising venture capital, we decided that we were going to bootstrap because we could convince some landlords to list their homes on this platform that we had built and derisk some of their problems.”. Then in July, it became the first African startup to join New York’s MetaProp Accelerator.

VC 131

VC real estate venture capital financing 131

American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

million from strategic investors ServiceNow and Cisco Investments, and existing investors including Battery Ventures and CRV. The research shows business teams (executives, manufacturing, R&D, marketing, finance, etc.) are not only increasing their use of SLOs but using SLOs for more than pure IT operations.

accelerator 40

accelerator investing investment SaaS 40

AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 3, 2023

Partech Partners, M Venture Partners, AC Ventures, iSeed, and Orvel Ventures. HD is also one of ten startups recently accepted into the Google for Startups Accelerator: Southeast Asia program.

hospitality 98

hospitality startup accelerator accelerator enablement 98

AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

This investment came from a consortium of regional investors, including Northstar Group, Alpine Ventures, Patamar Capital, and January Capital. GFC, Money Forward, Alpine Ventures, Patamar Capital, and nine angel investors also contributed to the funding round.

investing 105

investing investment startup financing 105

TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2022

Zenda (formerly nexopay) told TechCrunch it plans to enter the continent through Egypt — its third market after India — in the coming months, as it embarks on a growth drive accelerated by a $9.4 The startup also has an embedded financing option that extends tuition fee credit to parents on a flexible repayment structure.

education 98

education enablement accelerator leadership 98

TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

He has worked with the World Bank, IFC, UN, Clean Energy Venture Group, Schmidt Futures, Ashoka, and other organizations. However, depending on whom you talk to, the climate finance gap currently sits at $2.5 More posts by this contributor. A close look at Singapore’s thriving startup ecosystem. Abrar Chaudhury. Contributor.

financing 89

financing finance economic development VC 89

HPA

MAY 5, 2023

HPA is excited to announce our participation in Bloomfilter’s $7 Million seed round , which was led by Magarac Venture Partners. of equity financing and $1.5 of venture debt. By enabling that improvement, Bloomfilter is ushering in a new era of transparency, predictability, and efficiency in the software industry.

frameworks 91

frameworks financing finance development 91

TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2023

The Indonesian used car market is on a course for growth fueled by a number of trends : the increasing digitization in used car sales; a larger variety of finance options; and the COVID-19 pandemic, which pushed the idea of private car ownership. of new automotive sales in Southeast Asia. billion by 2027.

financing 75

financing finance accelerator enablement 75

TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

It’s a gap Marco Financial is looking to bridge through its tech-enabled risk assessment platform that can provide better insight on who should receive loans. Banks don’t like risk, which means businesses spend most of their time trying to get financing rather than increasing sales,” Spradling told TechCrunch.

support 100

support financing finance funders 100

AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 19, 2023

million to fund its mission to accelerate financial inclusion and strengthen the neo-rural bank ecosystem in Indonesia, especially outside the Greater Jakarta area. Fintech help SMEs manage their finances and capital with convenience and efficiency. Register Komunal has announced that it secured new investments amounting to $8.5

peer-to-peer 75

peer-to-peer incumbents accelerator economic growth 75

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.

collaboration 98

collaboration financing finance networking 98

HPA

MARCH 24, 2021

FourKites , the #1 real-time supply chain visibility platform, today announced a new $100 million Series D financing round. The growth financing is led by Thomas H. We look forward to partnering with our investors to enable true end-to-end visibility and unlocking tremendous value for the entire ecosystem.”.

transportation 91

transportation disruption financing finance 91

Dream It

AUGUST 6, 2020

Today, the company announced a $10M Series A financing round led by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and digital health fund Heal Capital , with participation from existing investors Karma Ventures, Inovo Venture Partners, and Dreamit Ventures.

health 195

health mix-use technology innovation 195

American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 27, 2023

This latest round of funding was co-led by Novalis LifeSciences LLC and NVentures, NVIDIA’s venture capital arm. Microsoft also participated in the round, along with insiders Invenshure, 8VC, Beringea, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Intuitive Ventures, iSelect, Gundersen Health System, Seraph, and Great North Ventures.

accelerator 52

accelerator entrepreneurship financing finance 52

AsiaTechDaily

JULY 25, 2023

The funding round was led by Northstar Group, Alpine Ventures, Patamar Capital and January Capital along with GFC, Money Forward, Alpine Ventures, Patamar Capital and nine angel investors and nine angel investors. The recently secured funding of over US$5 million will enable Bunker to focus on product development and expand its team.

leadership 97

leadership accelerator financing finance 97