Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

And the loosening of federal monetary policies, particularly in the US, has pushed more dollars into the venture ecosystems at every stage of financing. how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? What Has Changed in Financing? two founders in a garage?—?(HP Of course we can’t.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. The Kauffman Foundation found 47% of US tech founders held degrees in STEM while 34% held degrees in business, finance, and accounting. 1) Freebies for Student Tech Founders. Right here.

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

We’re fortunate to interview William Stringer, Founder of Chisos Capital , a structured finance company. Chisos is a structured finance company that provides startup and brand capital to entrepreneurs, athletes and creatives. My background is finance, investments and operations. What checks do you use?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Other backers included Visa (Brankas was a member of its 2021 Accelerator Program), AFG Partners and Treasury International, the venture capital firm led by fintech veterans including Jeff Cruttenden, co-founder of Acorns and Eli Broverman, co-founder of Betterment, also invested.

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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. Banxware’s tech and infrastructure enables any company to offer loans and other banking services to SME customers.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

So In May 2020, he teamed up with fellow Digital Ocean co-founders Mitch Wainer and Ben Uretsky to startup Welcome Homes , a New York City-based company that offers people a way to design and build new homes online. DigitalOcean’s other two co-founders Jesse Mauro and Marc Hartman are advisors to the company).

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

One of the first decisions we had to make in setting up our new VC fund, Versatile Venture Capital , was our CRM and marketing technology infrastructure. . Investors [and founders] will follow a power-curve, like any other data set. Linkedin : Versatile Venture Capital / David Teten personal.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 14, 2023

Register Indonesian startup, Finfra, has secured $1 million in new funding to expand its embedded finance offerings. Finfra aims to address this gap by providing the necessary technology infrastructure for online businesses to offer embedded finance products.

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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.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

While operating Fablic, the trio found that many users still used cash to pay and manage their day-to-day finance. The founders wanted to address the issue in the consumer finance industry in Japan and launched SmartBank. Existing investors, including Global Brain, and ANRI, also participated in the round.

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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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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? I have developed a founder curriculum on my blog. AskAnything.VC

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Coming out of stealth today with $150 million in debt financing and $11 million in seed funding, Arc is building what it describes as “a community of premium software companies” that gives SaaS startups a way to borrow, save and spend “all on a single tech platform.” We founded Arc to give founders an alternative to the status quo.

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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? “The

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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. The South African API fintech enables businesses to build, optimize, and scale financial products.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Investor relations: For startups seeking venture capital, solid financial forecasting provides a realistic picture of critical metrics, such as annual recurring revenue, customer acquisition costs, and customer annual recurring revenue. Cash flow management: Maintaining an optimal cash flow is critical for any startup’s survival.

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Ian Hathaway

MARCH 31, 2020

Senators led by Amy Klobuchar introduced the New Business Preservation Act to incentivize venture capital formation around the country. It avoids two well-known traps for government-sponsored venture programs by requiring that public funds are matched with private dollars and that capital is deployed by professional investors.

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Gust

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Financeable businesses require investors to believe that: 1) you will win at what you’re doing; and 2) the market in which you’re operating is worth winning. A founder with a startup focused on selling groceries online should begin their pitch by describing the total money projected to be spent on groceries online over the coming years.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Image Credits: Co-founders Gloria Lin and Joel Poloney / Bonnie Rae Mills Photography. Last week I wrote about two startups that had female co-founders and CEOs and I was so impressed with them both. million in funding — $15 million of which was raised in a Series A led by Menlo Ventures and $3.4 Women in Fintech. Latin America.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

But in 2021, Homebound expanded to Austin, Texas, its first non-disaster market, with the goal of taking learnings from those rebuilds and applying the same “streamlined, tech-enabled building process” to make custom homebuilding an option for local homeowners. Nikki and Jack are terrific founders we are pleased to back,” he wrote via email.

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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.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Blue Future Partners, a venture capital fund of funds, recently interviewed me on ESG in venture capital. For example, I’m an investor via ff Venture Capital in: – Plated.com is a meal kit company, delivering you the recipe and fresh ingredients to make a gourmet meal in your own kitchen.

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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. Bold co-founder and CEO José Vélez said that his company has had a “relentless focus” on usability and customer experience. . Image Credits: Bold.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

Some are more for fun, and the financing options for those types of buys — such as motorcycles and ATVs — are more limited. The company, which offers “instant” financing for large recreational purchases, boasts impressive financials in a startup world whose inhabitants are mostly unprofitable.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

Does the traditional VC financing model make sense for all companies? I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. I believe that Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

Companies that have high recurring revenue and visibility into future performance — such as SaaS startups — in particular can benefit from debt financings, Alex points out. . The firm has deployed over $60 million in capital to 130 SaaS founders since launching in January 2020, according to Latka. Enter Founderpath.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Artem Ventures led the investment charge, with contributions from MSW Ventures and the ScaleUp Founders Fund. In addition to its successful funding round, MADCash has appointed Musyrifah Malek as a co-founder, a strategic move attributed to her extensive legal expertise. ” Nuraizah said.

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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

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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.,

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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.”. The founders bootstrapped Spleet for 18 months before conducting a family and friend round of $265,000.

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Feedough

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Usually, during the initial stages of the startup, the money comes from the pockets of founders and cofounders. It is when the founders need to make a tough decision of whether to raise money by diluting ownership ( equity financing ) or by taking loans (debt financing). What Is Debt Financing?

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Blue Future Partners, a venture capital fund of funds, recently interviewed me on ESG in venture capital. For example, I’m an investor via ff Venture Capital in: – Plated.com is a meal kit company, delivering you the recipe and fresh ingredients to make a gourmet meal in your own kitchen.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 20, 2023

To help these fintech companies succeed, in addition to funding, the Ut ah -based BankTech created an ecosystem comprised of bankers, industry organizations, and tech founders who are working collaboratively to bring ongoing innovation to community banking.

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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. Some founders might be struggling to raise venture dollars, while others don’t want to — preferring not to dilute ownership. This could be for any number of reasons.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

We remain confident in the long-term trend that software enables and the value accrued to disruptive startups; we also recognized that in a strong market it is important to ring the cash register and this doesn’t come without a concentrated effort to do so. In short, In Venture Capital, Size Matters Size matters for a few reasons.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 23, 2023

Register Malaysian recommerce platform, CompAsia , has secured series A funding in a round led by Gobi Partners , a Pan-Asian venture capital firm. Since its inception in 2016, CompAsia has evolved into a comprehensive solution that enables customers to trade in or acquire electronic devices and offers financing options.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

This is part of a series on building your career in venture capital: Reading list for working in private equity/venture capital , including all of the major online communities, programs, and educational options for people studying VC. How to get a job in venture capital. How to find a job as a VC scout.

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