Jason Malki

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

I had the pleasure of interviewing Sanzhar Kettebekov, co-founder and CEO of Liquient. Sanzhar and a team of highly experienced co-founders with tenure in global management consulting launched a new venture to tackle the foremost issue in the food supply chain. What motivated you to launch your startup?

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 28, 2024

For years, the self-care industry has been underserved by lenders who understand little to nothing about how these unique businesses work,” said Matt Danna, co-founder and CEO of Boulevard. Traditional small business loans have only been accessible to business owners who don’t actually need them.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

When Daniel Simon sold Bread , a consumer purchase finance and payments startup he’d co-founded, to Alliance Data Systems for over $500 million late last year, he quickly set his sights on building another startup. Coast co-founders Daniel Simon and Andrew Woolf.

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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.”.

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Revolution

JANUARY 5, 2022

Fazeela’s experience as an investor and trusted advisor to tech-enabled businesses makes her an invaluable addition to the team, strengthening our approach of providing hands-on company portfolio support. What industries are you excited for the next generation of founders to disrupt?

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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. Technology such as AI has digitized the finance sector, ranging from payments and remittances to lending. Akros just raised $2.3

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Ximena Aleman is co-founder and chief business development officer at Prometeo , an open banking platform that serves Latin America. This will enable access to information, improve consumption of products and services, and disrupt and de-structure established value chains. Ximena Aleman. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

London-based Divido , a white-label platform for retail finance that integrates with e-commerce platforms (but can also support omni-channel) so retailers can offer consumers a “buy now, pay later” option at the point of sale, has bagged a $30 million Series B to fund international expansion. Making sense of Klarna.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

The financing marks the company’s first ever institutional funding. In a nutshell, Geopagos feels it is in the ideal position of being able to serve as the software enabler that can retrofit incumbents like large banks and launch the enablers like fintechs. Endeavor Catalyst also participated in the financing.

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Jason Malki

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

I had the pleasure of interviewing JC Carey, a seasoned serial entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience, currently leads as the Co-Founder and CEO of WelSpot. Carey’s expertise lies in transforming visionary ideas into tangible solutions, using disruptive technology to elevate startups from inception to industry leaders.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

Wellthy is a startup aimed at helping caregivers be more equipped to deal with all aspects of their various responsibilities by serving as a self-described “tech-enabled care concierge.” Its founder, Lindsay Jurist-Rosner, knows firsthand how challenging caregiving can be. Founder and CEO Lindsay Jurist-Rosner with her parents.

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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

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 This is the first funding for the company that is live in 20 states.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Infra.Market, an Indian startup that is helping construction and real estate companies in the world’s second-most populated nation procure materials and handle logistics for their projects, said on Tuesday it has secured its third financing round in the past nine months. The new round valued Mumbai-headquartered Infra.Market at $2.5

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Feedough

MARCH 1, 2021

While all disruptive high-growth businesses can be termed startups, it’s still a heterogeneous group with subtypes characterised by the industry served, market disrupted, funding raised, motive, and valuation. The space exploration market existed but was largely untapped before SpaceX disrupted the functioning of the market.

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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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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Customers can use RakkaR to store and manage digital assets with ease while seamlessly participating in Decentralized Finance, NFT marketplaces and other Web3-related activities. We are very grateful for this investment and strategic partnership,” said Arthit Sriumporn, CEO & Founder of RakkaR Digital.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

The startup has now raised a $3 million seed financing round led by Xploration Capital, which was joined by unnamed new strategic investors and existing investors. Jordan Latourelle, the company’s founder and CEO said: “Construction today is a largely offline, $1.2 Despite the hype, construction tech will be hard to disrupt.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Ulrich Kratz, co-founder and CEO, told TechCrunch via email that the funding “gives us more firepower to execute and overachieve on our business goals.” It will also enable the company to accelerate acquisitions of Fulfillment By Amazon brands, invest in technology development and further build out its team.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

A recent ZDNet piece reaffirms that the AI edge chip market is booming, fueled by “staggering” venture capital financing in the hundreds of millions of dollars. He has a deep history of investing in deep tech startups that have gone on to disrupt industries across AI, data, semiconductors, among others.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Rupifi has raised $25 million in a new financing round as the Indian startup, which currently provides buy now, pay later service to several marketplaces to serve their merchants, looks to expand its business-to-business payments offerings. set to disrupt B2B? The workflow of Rupifi’s BNPL service. Image Credits: Rupifi.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 6, 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. TC Ventures invites founders around the world who are seeking to disrupt and reimagine the maritime and aviation industries to connect.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

The company announced Friday $355 million in Series E financing to give Bolt an $11 billion valuation, according to sources close to the company. The company’s valuation is nearly double what it was at the Series D, Ryan Breslow, founder and CEO, told TechCrunch. We don’t just want to be on par with competitors, but be better.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

Cora , a São Paulo-based technology-enabled lender to small-and-medium-sized businesses, has raised $26.7 Kaszek Ventures, QED Investors and Greenoaks Capital also participated in the financing, which brings the startup’s total raised to $36.7 This isn’t the first venture for Cora co-founders Igor Senra and Leo Mendes.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

However, a change-point is in the offing as insurtechs like the Kenya-based insurtech Turaco introduce new technologies and products that are disrupting the market. But it’s a long road ahead of us for sure,” Ted Pantone , Turaco co-founder and CEO, told TechCrunch. Kenyan insurtech Lami raises $3.7M

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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. The founders are banking that it will be different with Koa. Nyavor, on the other hand, is a serial founder and has led engineering teams at various African tech companies.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Thepeer isn’t a pure fintech play; it sits at the intersection of data and finance. to 573 , from 491 in 2019, according to local publication Disrupt Africa. Participating investors in Thepeer’s seed round include RaliCap, Timon Capital, BYLD Ventures, Musha Ventures, Sunu and Uncovered Fund.

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Revolution Growth has long invested in tech-driven companies that are disrupting legacy industries, particularly where there is a distinct opportunity to modernize the customer experience. Revolution has always focused our efforts outside of Silicon Valley to find investment opportunities and support founders in rising cities.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

Founders focusing on gut health, optimizing the way our bodies process waste and what that can do to the brain. Technology that enables people to live longer on their own (not as big a factor in other countries where it is normal for multi-generational households to exist) and to take ownership of their health and care is on the rise.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

Vise today announced a $65 million Series C financing round led by Ribbit Capital, with participation from existing investors, including Sequoia. The startup launched on the Disrupt Startup Battlefield stage in 2019 and has since raised upwards of $125 million. The end goal is to “enable financial freedom for everyone.”

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 9, 2022

But that just might be the best thing for the industry… Photo by Conny Schneider on Unsplash Nour Haridy, founder of DeFi protocol Inverse Finance, a self-proclaimed “decentralized global central bank” is one of many prominent figures in the cryptocurrency industry who has been tweeting for months about the inevitable demise of the UST stablecoin.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Mumbai-headquartered Infra.Market said on Thursday it has raised $20 million in a Series B financing round. These improvements, explained co-founder Souvik Sengupta, help small manufacturers land larger clients that have higher expectations from the businesses with which they engage. “We

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

According to an internal memo obtained by TechCrunch, Chime co-founder Chris Britt said that the move was one of many that would help the company thrive “regardless of market conditions.” Jeppe Rindom, co-founder and CEO of Pleo — which less than one year ago raised $200 million at a $4.7 This equals about 160 people.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

New York-based Declaration Partners and European growth investor Kinnevik co-led the financing, which also included participation from WndrCo and existing backers W. Also, CEO and co-founder Wayne Slavin says its annual recurring revenue (ARR) has grown “by more than 3X every year over the past several years.”.

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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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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 2, 2022

Chandran Nair, GIFT Founder, and GIFT.ed A rich content ecosystem will support the site, including GIFT’s internationally recognized curriculum, publications, and firsthand insights from field initiatives in major development areas like agribusiness, healthcare, finance, and water.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) has quickly established itself as the go-to method of financing for a variety of purchases, particularly online. This financing model has primarily been available to customers shopping online, but customers outside the U.S. Melissa Guzy , co-founder and managing partner, Arbor Ventures.

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