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Indonesian proptech startup Tanaku secures more than $5m in fresh capital

AsiaTechDaily

The round included equity and debt capital from an International Bank. The fresh capital will accelerate Tanaku’s mission to make home ownership accessible and radically transform the home buying experience, with the current focus on building the product, expanding the team, acquiring homes, and executing the go-to -market strategy.

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TechCrunch roundup: Dotcom crash history lessons, post-M&A strategies, climate tech heats up

TechCrunch

What can today’s founders learn from the 2000 dotcom bubble burst? By 2000, many of these high-fliers had left smoking craters behind. “The payments landscape in Latin America seems hopelessly fragmented and riddled with fraud,” says Rocio Wu, a principal at F-Prime Capital. “That person was me.”

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Non-dilutive biotech capital, long-term angel investing, WayRay’s $80M pitch deck

TechCrunch

Alomar, who led startups through the dotcom bust of 2000 and the Great Recession of 2008, will talk about whether investors are still prioritizing growth over profits, and identify which proof points founding teams must define before their next raise. 3 tips for biotech startups seeking non-dilutive capital to weather the downturn.

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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

Both Sides of the Table

There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I’ve raised money as a “hot company” and I’ve raised capital when no one would return my phone calls. I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies.

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Fintech Roundup: Goldman Sachs buys another startup, Fast hits a speed bump and BaaS gets hotter

TechCrunch

billion in an all-stock deal that was a reflection of its continued push into consumer finance. We felt that the underlying infrastructure supporting the shift from investment product to digital advice was a more durable, interesting space to be allocating capital to,” the firm said in a recent newsletter. That deal closed last week.

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8 factors to consider when fundraising during a downturn

TechCrunch

I have experienced two major financial disruptions in my career: the bubble burst in 2000 and the financial crisis of 2008. The tightening of the public markets essentially has a domino effect that ultimately makes it harder for startups at any stage to secure capital. This ultimately leads to more frugal post-funding strategies.

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Why I Angel Invest

Angel Capital Association

THE ORIGIN I was the Founder & CEO of InboxDollars from 2000 to 2019. It made sense because a common playbook for consumer-facing startups was to build the product, prove PMF, raise capital from investors, and then deploy some/much/most of that capital in paid media to grow quickly. Side note: I rarely play the “What If?”