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 million in a Series A round led by Silicon Valley VC firm Ribbit Capital.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

The Kauffman Foundation found 47% of US tech founders held degrees in STEM while 34% held degrees in business, finance, and accounting. Next36 focuses on supporting students and recent grads launching their startups, while Next AI supports AI-enabled ventures looking to disrupt industries. . Some schools run their own (e.g.,

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

Does the traditional VC financing model make sense for all companies? Lighter Capital is a RBI VC which has provided over $100 million in growth capital to over 250 companies since 2012. 2018 also had the fewest number of angel-led financing rounds since before 2010. Absolutely not.

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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 end goal is to “enable financial freedom for everyone.” The startup launched on the Disrupt Startup Battlefield stage in 2019 and has since raised upwards of $125 million.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

Amazon’s unending drive to outflank the rest of the world birthed an industry with its 2012 acquisition of Kiva. But with the growth of multi-modal AI models, we see a huge opportunity for robotics to become multipurpose because these models enable common sense and require little training. It’s just a financing question.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

million VC-backed company, Carbon was founded by Chijioke Dozie and Ngozi Dozie in 2012. Posting audited financials can prove detrimental for a private African company for several reasons ranging from bad marketing and PR if huge losses are incurred to regulatory clampdown if the company performs well. Image Credits: Carbon.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

Today it announced financing totalling €750 million (around $895 million at today’s rates), money that it will be using to continue expanding its business — specifically, for acquisitions; to launch in new markets in Europe, Latin America and Asia; and to build out the suite of services that it provides to businesses.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

By enabling customers that shopped online to be mailed an invoice with 30 days to pay, online shopping could be made easier and safer for consumers, which in turn helped increase sales for retailers. Klarna finally took Atomico’s money in 2012, and within two years had grown to over 1,000 employees.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

LiveOak Venture Partners raised its largest fund to date, $210 million for Fund III, which will enable the Austin-based, early-stage venture capital firm to double down on Texas founders. Srinivasan and Venu Shamapant started the firm in 2012, and its first two funds both raised $105 million.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 26, 2023

This new facility will enable Fisher’s Popcorn to better serve its existing customers and grow its production and wholesale operations.” This expansion will enable us to bring the classic flavors of the Delaware beach resorts to more people around the country while adding quality jobs in Sussex County.

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Y Combinator

JULY 24, 2020

require payment financing, invoicing/approvals, inventory management) and requirements differ from vertical to vertical. As a result, B2B buyers are looking for online platforms to help with the discovery, purchase, and financing of new products. million in 2012 to 1.55

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

a startup focused on in-home care for older adults, after selling chat service Meebo to Google for about $100 million in 2012. And today, San Francisco-based Honor has announced that it has raised $70 million in Series E funding and $300 million in debt financing, bringing its valuation to over $1.25 Rowe Price Associates Inc.,

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

Exotel said on Tuesday it has raised $40 million in a financing round, just three months after securing $35 million in funding, as the Bangalore-based startup demonstrates growth for its full-stack customer engagement platform in emerging markets. For the first time we are enabling this over the cloud with our full-stack platform.”.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

A consortium of global institutional investors also participated in the funding round that will finance the expansion of Traveloka’s platform and strengthen the company’s capabilities as the world opens up.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2021

Sohail Prasad and Samvit Ramadurgam are cofounders who met during Y Combinator’s 2012 summer batch and went on to cofound Forge , which helps accredited investors and institutions buy and sell private company shares and which most recently raised $150 million in new funding in May. It has built what some call boring plumbing.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

million financing into the ultra-high-resolution 3D printing company that can print finely enough to aid in semiconductor and display manufacturing. . Back when we started, around 2012, there was a lack of VC investors who [were] willing to invest very early stage in hardware technology, particularly in 3D printing.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Greg Sands started the firm in 2012 as a sole general partner and told TechCrunch that all the way back to the first fund, it invested in companies, like Intaact, which was acquired by Sage in 2017 , and Datalogix, acquired by Oracle in 2014 , that established a pattern.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Since its 2012 inception, the company has evolved its offering to also include investment services, debt management and a product aimed at children, Acorns Early. . Additionally, the company enables financial education through its personalized engagement model that helps customers develop and practice smart saving habits.”

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MAY 22, 2018

State College, PA – Salimetrics, a company that is widely regarded as a global leader in salivary bioscience, got its start nearly 20 years ago with an investment from Ben Franklin Technology Partners, and then received additional funding from the program for a buyout of early-stage investors in 2012.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

In her expanded role, which still includes serving as the company’s COO, Dufétel oversees all operational and go-to-market teams, including finance and marketing. Finance in 2021, and to Fortune’s 40 under 40 in 2020. Since 2012, we’ve grown to over 1,900 employees in 21 global offices. Rowe Price for three years.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

Near, originally founded in Singapore in 2012 and now based out of Pasadena, had raised around $134 million in funding, including a $100 million round in 2019 — which had been the company’s last big raise. Sometimes that has played out okay anyway, but sometimes it has ended badly for everyone.

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TechCrunch

JULY 18, 2022

million in a Series B financing round led by Three Fish Capital with participation from over a “half dozen” angel investors. HireArt was originally founded in 2012 as an “assessment company” — the startup sourced and screened job candidates for companies much like a temp agency.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 18, 2020

In 2012, Dr. Chris Hagen was working in the engineering group at Oregon State University and received a seedling award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPA-E) within the Department of Energy (DOE). The following September in 2014 the company received a $3.6

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

The platform, which has customers like Airtel, Ezee Money, Housing Finance Company of Kenya (HF Group), enables borderless banking and payments across apps and social media platforms. Ajua, formerly mSurvey , was founded in 2012 by Kenfield Griffith. “Imagine if we knew what drove consumer habits for businesses.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

As an example, between the 1960s and 1980s, VCs moved later and ultimately invested nearly 90% of their capital in leveraged buyouts and late-stage financings before ultimately refocusing on early-stage bets in the 1990s at the dawn of the internet. But Facebook was only the start. There was also Uber and Airbnb.

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abovethecrowd.com

JANUARY 30, 2015

When Uber launched its low-cost UberX offering in the summer of 2012, the company quickly realized that the demand for its transportation services is HIGHLY elastic. So UberPool is a fundamental enabling technology for Uber in addition to providing lower price points and increased efficiency. Learning From UberX Price Cuts. Jeff Bezos.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 11, 2021

The company matches skilled tech personnel like engineers, software developers, designers, finance experts and product managers to clients across the globe. We thought, ‘What if we accelerated [the African remote network] and just enabled applicants from anywhere?’ In 2012, Toptal raised a $1.4 How did it pull this off?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Protofund and IDEA Fund Partners co-led the financing, which included participation from Concrete Rose Capital , VamosVentures and a set of angels from Airbnb, The MBA Fund , among others. In 2012, I was fortunate enough to make a little money from an exit. million in pre-seed funding and an official launch into public beta.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

There’s Metromile, which launched its personalized pay-per-mile auto insurance in 2012. “Our approach enables us to offer customers rates that are truly reflective of their driving.”. Image Credits: Just Insure. Of course, Just is not the first company to offer personalized auto insurance.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Every workman has a great quantity of his own work to dispose of beyond what he himself has occasion for; and every other workman being exactly in the same situation, he is enabled to exchange a great quantity of his own goods for a great quantity, or, what comes to the same thing, for the price of a great quantity of theirs.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

Since 2017 we’ve managed $3 million in revenue-based financing, which helps cash-strapped technology companies grow. Investment Criteria: B2B SaaS or tech-enabled services with proven, recurring contracts. According to John Borchers, Co-founder, Decathlon is the largest revenue-based financing investor in the US.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

By enabling customers that shopped online to be mailed an invoice with 30 days to pay, online shopping could be made easier and safer for consumers, which in turn helped increase sales for retailers. Klarna finally took Atomico’s money in 2012, and within two years had grown to over 1,000 employees.

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Impact Hub

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

The report also highlights how Impact Hub members are encouraging economic growth, especially in the social impact sector, with 10,000+ new ventures and 29,000+ net new jobs created since 2012. The network also fosters a society that promotes innovation, education, and gainful employment, among others.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 30, 2021

Gusto launched in 2012 to tackle this opportunity, and more. After onboarding, Gusto enables time tracking, employee surveys, and distribution of the employee’s documents. Gusto also enables customers to access government programs and benefits as they arise in real time. Helping employees optimize their finances.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

GT: It was 2012. The best] companies stack durable advantages in multiple industries, and they do it on the back of hiring the best software engineers, the best designers, and the best product people, and that is enabled by a being extremely profitable, and then being a great place to work.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Several top-tier funds recently redefined themselves as “investment advisors,” enabling them to place long-term bets by holding rather than distributing IPO shares. Real corporate governance is needed to manage tough financings, predatory investors, company restructuring and inevitable M&A market consolidations.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Again, he helped the company grow to a different level with his engineering, analytics and marketing chops before it went public in 2012. Hudson Structured Ventures led Inclined’s Series A financing, which included participation from Anthemis Group and other new and existing backers. This is financial democracy at its best.

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