TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Savings and investing app Acorns has raised $300 million in a Series F funding round that values the company at nearly $2 billion. The company also plans to continue building products that allow parents and their kids “to save and invest, and get educated together.” billion SPAC with Pioneer Merger Corp. ” .

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Investing internationally, the firm went from a de facto family office to a multi-LP VC firm. It lists Headmade Materials , LightForce Orthodontics and Conflux Technology among some of its marquee investments. The fact that portfolio company founders are now investing in our fund is great validation of our exceptional effort.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

Alongside that, the company is picking up a $100 million equity investment into its business from CF Principal Investments, an affiliate of Cantor Fitzgerald. . Time, the appetite for more data intelligence and potentially some factors out of its control like the investment climate, ultimately will show which way Near will go.

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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 <20% pre-COVID).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

That only changed in 2019, when it decided to incur losses in favor of investing millions trying to conquer the U.S. 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.

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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 data shows the impact that tailored support programs can have for entrepreneurs looking to develop an idea or scale a venture.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

She found non-traditional financing. Without this money she wouldn’t have been able to finance operations. Sam is the managing director of Launchpad LA and we were about to pick our 2012 class of entrepreneurs. She put all of her savings into her company. But Tracy did what entrepreneurs do. She never gave up.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

The Nordic countries make up just 4% of Europe’s total population, but they account for a significant amount of venture capital investment. Investments highlighted included Fairown, Kahoot, Spacemaker, Cognite, Pexip, PortalOne, Dignio, Speiz, Plaace, Glint Solar, variable.co What’s your latest, most exciting investment?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Ugandan technology-enabled asset finance company Tugende today announced that it has closed $3.6 The investment, which, according to the company, was agreed on and structured in 2020, follows the $6.3 million raised in November 2020 and led by Toyota Tsusho investment fund Mobility 54. Image Credits: Tugende.

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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. Investments began flooding into robotics around this time. Slowed investments have been compounded by continued economic woes and the recent bank collapses have further shaken confidence.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

Today, one of the startups that has been building low-code finance tools is announcing funding to tap into that trend and expand its business. To give you an idea of who it works with, Citi, ING, London Clearing House and XP Investments are some of Genesis’ customers.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. 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. Bigfoot Capital.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

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. The latest funding, led by South Korean private equity firm DSAsset, brings Tridge’s total financing to $111.7 With this investment, we will accelerate overseas expansion plans.”.

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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 Ribbit has invested in 15 companies in the region and continues to look for more to back.

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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. We finished with a diverse base of investors that included 90% from institutional investors and over 40% of investment from new investors.”.

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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

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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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). In addition to investments from ACA groups like Golden Seeds, how has the company attracted funding?

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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. This allows the company to “forward invest” capital to help these markets achieve lower consumer prices even faster. Learning From UberX Price Cuts. What is UberPool?

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

A shift from late-stage pre-IPO investing to renewed emphasis on early stage. From VCs to Investment Advisors… and back again? From VCs to Investment Advisors… and back again? But this will be especially hard to deal with for early-stage investors, given that we expect most of our investments to fail to return capital.

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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

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Derek Zanutto is a general partner at CapitalG , Alphabet’s independent growth fund, where he invests in data, security and SaaS-based enterprise software. Our team wanted to invest in the company on behalf of my private equity firm, but was utterly daunted by its “eye-popping” $1 billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

At the time, the German investment outfit was a founding shareholder in the African-based unicorn. million VC-backed company, Carbon was founded by Chijioke Dozie and Ngozi Dozie in 2012. million) worth of investments was made on the platform, representing a 365% increase from the previous year. billion (~$32.55

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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

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

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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Costanoa Ventures is seeing some of its best returns yet as it closed on two new funds, Costanoa Fund IV, a $225 million early-stage fund, and Opportunity Fund II, a $115 million funding investing in later rounds of portfolio companies. One of its first investments into Latin America was leading Plug Pagamentos’s seed round in November.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

CrossCut Ventures, ManchesterStory and Western Technology Investments co-led the investment, which brings its total raised to $15.3 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.”.

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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

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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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

GT: It was 2012. He does direct [investing] now, too. But he’d been trying to invest with Y Combinator for many years., The other thing that was true back then was it was commonplace for YC partners to invest in YC companies. Did Initialized end up with a bigger stake in the company than Y Combinator?

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 30, 2021

Gusto launched in 2012 to tackle this opportunity, and more. Once in place, this structured data positioned Gusto for its second act: to leverage the payroll core, keep investing in it, but also expand around it a “people platform” that would help SMBs build great places to work. Helping employees optimize their finances.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 14, 2014

And as DeCambre points out, so far through 2014, the ten largest startup financings have yielded about twice as much capital as the ten largest IPOs. Note, I’m excluding Facebook’s IPO in 2012 as an outlier and I’ve adjusted for inflation. In 2012, there were 3 MegaRounds for every 4 IPOs.

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