TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

Thomas Rush is founder of Bootstrapp and Head of Investment Platform at ConsenSys Mesh. Revenue-based investing ( RBI), also known as revenue-based financing, or revenue-share investing, 1 is a natural next step for the private equity and early-stage venture investment industry. Thomas Rush. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

Amit Jain, the former head of Uber’s Asia Pacific division, revealed his new venture, Zamp Finance , that aims to simplify the process for businesses to invest their excess capital in US Treasury bills to hedge against bank failures and other uncertainties. TechCrunch reported about the investment talks in May.

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

We’re proud to share the next in PEVCtech ’s periodic series on the tech and analytics stack of investment management firms. We’re fortunate to interview William Stringer, Founder of Chisos Capital , a structured finance company. My background is finance, investments and operations. Q: What’s your background?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

million seed round and a student loan financing facility of $25 million from Nigerian financial institution Sterling Bank. As a serial founder, Nwobi ran a couple of tech businesses, most notably mobile internet company MTech in the early 2000s. For its equity financing, Decagon raised money from Kepple Africa and Timon Capital.

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Dream It

DECEMBER 19, 2019

million Series A financing round led by San Francisco-based Builders VC. Also participating in the round are Dreamit Ventures , Spring Point Partners, Red & Blue Ventures, and AWT Private Investments. Chris Molaro, Founder of NeuroFlow. This week, the company announced a $7.5

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StartupNation

AUGUST 8, 2021

But financing isn’t always easy — especially if you’re the proud founder of a brand new business. You still have plenty of creative financing options to fund your business. You’ll need to think outside the box, but you’re bound to come across your “aha” financing moment in this article.

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Dream It

JULY 12, 2021

In this Dreamit Dose, Steve Barsh, Managing Partner at Dreamit, gives you his breakdown and tells you what issues to avoid on these early-stage financing instruments. You’ll learn 6 key points to be prepared and ready the next time you’re structuring a convertible note or SAFE financing. It’s one or the other, not both.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2021

founders, marketers, investors?—?and Trust, which today has announced a $9 million financing (Upfront is an investor), is a platform designed to help make the most of marketing investment by providing both analytics and a community of likeminded executives to share what’s working, and what’s not, across platforms.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

For one thing, the processes remain largely manual, with financing in this sector remaining reliant on emails, spreadsheets and documents in a variety of formats. Old-school systems probably didn’t quite do it for old-school oil and gas investments, but they damn sure don’t cut it for newer, greener, more sustainable technologies.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

Banking-as-a-service (BaaS), embedded finance and open banking are among the hottest topics in fintech today. In a session called “Making Money Move with Embedded Finance,” our panel will talk about how a new breed of finance infrastructure companies have the potential to turn any company into a fintech company. The promise?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Miguel Fernandez is CEO and co-founder of Capchase , which provides non-dilutive financing to SaaS and comparable recurring-revenue companies. Use alternative financing to fuel VC-level growth without diluting ownership. But in recent years, more options have become available to founders. What is revenue-based financing?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

The new investment comes just five months after Zeni announced $13.5 Elevation was joined in the new round by new investors Think Investments and Neeraj Arora, as well as existing investors Saama Capital, Amit Singhal, Sierra Ventures, Twin Ventures, Dragon Capital and Liquid 2 Ventures. million in a combined seed and Series A round.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 4, 2023

As an entrepreneur or founder starting a business, you may think of capital as purely monetary. Unfortunately, without a solid grasp of how capital — in its many different forms — can influence a business, too many founders make decisions early on in their companies that have unintended consequences down the line.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Finance teams worldwide emerged as strategic leaders for startups with the onset of the pandemic by recognizing ways to efficiently manage remote teams, their finances, company operations and associated cost-cutting mechanisms. What challenges do remote finance teams face? 4 ways to empower remote finance teams.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

On a call with TechCrunch, CEO Rotimi Thomas said the investment will help SunFi grow its operations and improve its capabilities to recommend the best systems at the lowest cost to customers. The company said it is working on a third revenue stream where it will assist solar providers with inventory financing. Think about it.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Finance is a common source of both challenges and opportunities for a growing company. Learn these foundational finance lessons now to set yourself up for success: Avoid the sunk cost fallacy. As a vulnerable new business founder, it’s easy to submit to sunk cost thinking. Learn more about how to apply today. .

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Register ShopUp , the largest full-stack B2B commerce platform in Bangladesh, announced that it secured $30 million in debt financing, another major milestone in the country’s startup ecosystem. Still, they face issues such as product unavailability, unreliable delivery, and lack of access to affordable financing.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 17, 2018

When I was a Y Combinator partner, I noticed that more and more of the batches were companies started by international founders. I’ve invested in several startups that started out as international companies and either moved to the U.S. I often see founders come here because they want access to those investors. and globally.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

“It is still small-scale, and the most important thing we are doing that other companies should do is focus on the design, engineering and full-scale installations of vessels and the supporting systems to make a lot of it,” said Josh Tetrick, co-founder and CEO of Eat Just, which sells lab-grown chicken meat in Singapore.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

This amount includes Brick’s previously undisclosed seed funding, which TechCrunch reported in May 2021 , but the majority of it is fresh capital, said co-founder and CEO Gavin Tan. Inside Plaid’s plans to build a new, global finance network. Its third-largest vertical are bookkeeping and accounting apps used by businesses.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

million downloads to make it “the largest and first Black-owned personal finance platform” to do so, Rodney Williams, co-founder and president of SoLo, told TechCrunch. The community finance company defines the claim “as a business-to-consumer personal finance banking solution, U.S.-based

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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 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 says it will use the investment to develop and grow its embedded white label financial services offering, and expand its team.

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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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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

New regulations are making it easier to invest in alternative assets via crowdfunding , and the recent explosion of crypto and NFTs means that investors are more diversified than ever. . Keeping up with such a variety of investments may prove difficult to those who want to handle managing their investment portfolios on their own.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Founders] want to believe in the best of humanity and that people are going to dedicate time to wanting to learn something, but we always come back to this vitamin versus painkiller problem.” Today, Hezarkhani is the CEO and founder of Parthean , a personal finance monitoring and education app that just raised $1.1

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

Since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2016, the bank has financed more than $430 billion worth of fossil fuel projects, according to the most recent Banking on Climate Chaos report , far exceeding its peers. Of that, it’s earmarking $1 trillion specifically for climate investments. Just in the U.S., Just in the U.S.,

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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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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 27, 2022

Register India -based FinTech startup Stack Finance offers customized investment strategies for retail investors based on their goals and risk-taking capabilities. Finance and investment had always piqued Smriti’s interest since she was a teenager. ” How it all started?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

Moove , an African mobility fintech that provides vehicle financing to drivers of ride-hailing platforms like Uber and other gig networks, has raised $105 million in new Series A2 financing. Africa is home to more than a billion people, where a majority have limited or no access to vehicle financing. that same year.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 10, 2021

He was recently honoured for his actions: Pajani is co-founder of Amazonia Impact Ventures (AIV), which was selected by the World Economic Forum (WEF) as a winner of the Tropical Forest Commodities Challenge. The recognition was given for AIV’s innovative approach using finance to tackle deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.

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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

MAY 11, 2023

Though SaaS growth didn’t take as big of a hit as previously thought, Miguel Fernandez, co-founder and CEO of Capchase, told TechCrunch that SaaS companies did see a shift in their return on investment when sales cycles delayed as buyer’s asked for more flexible financing terms.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

That player, Crowdz , recently secured $10 million in financing co-led by Citi and Dutch growth equity firm Global Cleantech Capital, with participation from Bold Capital Partners, TFX Ventures and Augment Ventures. Put simply, Crowdz started out by giving small and medium-sized businesses a way to sell invoices for financing to funders.

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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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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The buzzy startup has raised $300 million in equity financing this year from a slew of investors, such as Shopify, Slack, Okta, HubSpot , Marc Benioff’s TIME Ventures, Alexis Ohanian’s Seven Seven Six, Chamath Palihapitiya, MaC Ventures, Fin VC, Greenspring Associates and Counterpoint Global (Morgan Stanley), among others.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

I recently wrote about the so-called “Embedded finance” trend, citing the example of Intergiro’s recent fundraising in the space. WndrCo is a significant win for the company, since the deal brings WndrCo’s managing partner and former co-founder and CEO of DreamWorks Animations, Jeffrey Katzenberg to HUBUC’s cap table.

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