TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

She is currently a board director for Workwhile and a board observer for Outschool. . In 2013, Monot co-founded Innovative Auctions, a high-stakes auction company. . She graduated from Stanford University with a BS in human biology and an MS in management science and engineering. . He is also the GP of the 500 Fintech fund.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 22, 2017

I have also served on the EO South Florida board for six of these years, including serving four years as MarCom Chair (earning the EO GCC Award in 2013), serving on the EO Miami University committee in 2013, serving two years as Learning Chair, and being elected the president of one of the largest chapters in the world (a position I hold now).

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Founded in 2013, my online interior design company, Decorilla, is now celebrating its seventh year. Looking back, in 2013, most people couldn’t even comprehend what online interior design was. We did so with the Decorilla platform and it allowed us to put quality before quantity in order to manage our finances more steadily.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

They enable governments to finance critical infrastructure, corporations to fund growth, and individuals to make life’s most important purchases. In 2013, just 8% of corporate debt was traded electronically. As the world’s most traded asset class, the fixed income markets are a pillar of our global economy.

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Founders Coop

AUGUST 7, 2018

With Aviel’s announcement last week, and a new website up at Founder’s Co-op reflecting our new partnership, I thought it was a good time to revisit the themes from my 2013 keynote at the Geekwire Awards: Turtles and Flywheels. Seattle in 2013 was a different place. Founders’ Co-op has grown along with Seattle.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Abraaj bought Vine Pharmacy in 2013 when it was the largest pharmacy chain in Uganda. mPharma was originally founded in 2013, by Rockson , Daniel Shoukimas and James Finucane , to manage prescription drug inventory for pharmacies and their suppliers. s development finance institution, last year.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

While global investors have previously invested in African startups, their activity seemed more prominent in 2021, probably because of their participation across the board. The only non-fintech deals were Andela and TradeDepot (although the latter has an embedded finance play). A handful of local acquisitions and a monumental exit.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

The products are currently under development, however, the plan is to also lend to bigger businesses in the agri-value chain, as the company expands its reach from micro-sellers, who have been their target market since launch in 2013. Fintechs in Africa continue to overshadow all other startups in funding gained.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Many experienced partners are funds have 7-10 boards and most of these will need more capital. in 2013 and then reverted back to 4x – a little bit below the historical mean. Why Financing in Falling Markets is So Damn Difficult. This is how VCs feel. So when prices go down their first reaction is, “S**t.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

The financing raised comprises $30 million in equity and $5 million in debt from CitiBank, bringing the total amount raised by mPharma to $65 million. and Daniel Vasella, ex-CEO and chairman of Novartis; both are members of the board. Other investors include Northstar, Social Capital, Novastar and TO Ventures.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

There is an unmet need of $260 billion to $320 billion for women-owned company funding, according to a 2013 study conducted by the International Finance Corporation. Data show that men were four times as likely as women to access equity financing from angel investors or VCs (14.4% Women entrepreneurs and fundraising.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

Vlad Tenev: Robinhood Markets’ co-founder and CEO Vlad Tenev co-founded Robinhood with Baiju Bhatt in 2013 with a mission to democratize finance. He is also chair of the company’s board of directors. Prior to Robinhood, Tenev started two finance companies in New York City.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Veteran investor Eric Satz realized this in 2013 when he first tried to deploy money from his IRA into private companies and was met with pushback from his financial advisor, who was concerned about the potential risks, Satz told TechCrunch in an interview. ibnAle is set to join the company’s board of directors.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

In a 2021 survey from The Conference Board focused specifically on the service industry, 80% of respondents said they were having a hard time finding qualified workers. “Smaller businesses need to focus on growth — not keeping up on HR trends, industry statistics, or job board best practices. Image Credits: WizeHire.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

BCM was founded by Seyi Taylor and Bankole Oluwafemi in 2013. Lastly, it will use the new funds to grow its audience, make hires across the board, and consolidate its position as one of Africa’s most influential media and technology brands. Tomiwa Aladekomo , the company’s CEO, took over from Taylor in 2018.

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Angel Capital Association

APRIL 30, 2023

Y Combinator, a leading incubator, invented the original (pre-money) SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity) in 2013 to provide an easy, fast and cheap way to fund the dozens of startups comprising a Y/C batch. This has recently and amply been demonstrated by the reappearance of Boards and serious governance as critical deal terms.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

This is interesting, considering PayPal bought Venmo in 2013 and now Venmo seems to be growing more rapidly than PayPal’s core offering. . Trace Finance , a Brazilian fintech startup that aims to enable faster and more streamlined cross-border financing, announced a $4.3 But these days, I hear much more often, “Can I Venmo you?”

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 18, 2020

In 2013, Dr. Hagen joined with two more brilliant minds, Rita Hansen and Dr. Jeff Witwer, and together, they founded Onboard Dynamics. Since the company’s founding in 2013, it has leveraged over $6M of nondilutive funding from ARPA-E and other gap funding programs to develop and launch a unique product into the marketplace.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 26, 2016

In 2013, Kim sold the company to her co-workers, making it 100% employee owned at a moment of growth and expansion. Later, I went to a Quaker high school that was a boarding school, although I was a day student. I would also do things like organize kids to clean up the creek that we played in. How did the notion of ownership evolve?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Ambar was created in 2013 with the ambition to leverage technology to make the civil construction process more efficient. ” In addition, the Series C round was co-led by Echo Capital, the newly formed growth fund of Ambar board member Guilherme Weege , who has ties to the United Nations Global Compact initiative. C commitment.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Brian Dally, a former mobile network exec, and Nick Bhargava, a co-author of the bipartisan JOBS (Jumpstart Our Business Startups) Act, founded Groundfloor in 2013. As part of the deal, Medipower founder and chairman Yair Goldfinger will join the Groundfloor board.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

In addition, attitudes toward the value of work are changing across the board as many businesses are now more willing to outsource work to independent contractors, he added. billion on the platform in 2021, bringing total bookings to over $5 billion since the company launched in 2013. HoneyBook dashboard. Image Credits: HoneyBook.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

Peterson Institute for International Economics (2016): “There is a statistically significant positive correlation between female leadership (C-Suite and board) and net margin and gross margin company profitability”, among a global dataset of 22,000 publicly traded companies. “For

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

This appointment comes a month after Ayeni left the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, where he led venture capital investments across Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia for over 5 years. and was a principal advisor for early-stage Pan-African fund EchoVC from 2013 to 2016.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

According to Briter Bridges , another publication that tracks VC investments in Africa, only 3% of the total funding raised by startups in Africa since 2013 has gone to all-women co-founded teams. I would say the biggest challenge I faced was getting a lead investor on board, especially because insurtech wasn’t seen as exciting as it is now.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

I started out as a lawyer, corporate finance lawyer, for about two and a half years. A lot of the things that we ultimately did when I was running Global Payments from 2013 to 2023, a lot of things that we ultimately did were not even like a glint in my eye back in 2009, 2010 when I was just thinking about coming over.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 10, 2021

She wants to figure out how to finance the billions of dollars in much-needed NYCHA repairs. But, fine, I’m sure he would have been an ok administrator—that is, until he brazenly flaunted the election finance laws through his father’s $1 million donation to his campaign. She wants to field complaints about flooded streets. Bike lanes.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

Peterson Institute for International Economics (2016): “There is a statistically significant positive correlation between female leadership (C-Suite and board) and net margin and gross margin company profitability”, among a global dataset of 22,000 publicly traded companies. “For

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Greater governance role for limited partner Boards of Advisors. FIGURE 17: NUMBER OF COMPANIES ANNOUNCING NEW FINANCING ROUNDS Source: Crunchbase In 2022 the demand for capital outstripped the supply and this gap worsened as the year progressed. By Q4, for every dollar of available capital there were 1.4x

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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. What Has Changed in Financing? Pre-seed is just a narrower segment where you might raise $1–3 million on a SAFE note and not give out any board seats. Of course we can’t.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Can you do this online before your visit, or are you handed a clip-board full of forms where you enter information you have already provided on previous visits? In 2015, 46 percent of workers were enrolled in a plan with an annual deductible of $1,000 or more, up from 38 percent in 2013 and 22 percent in 2009. Do they respond?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

Existing backers Underscore, True Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, and Greenspring also participated in the financing, along with additional investors including Brewer Lane. Historically, he added, insurance has been viewed as a necessary evil, a purchase made purely for the sake of safety and security.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Almost no financings, many VCs and tech startups cratered for the second time in less than a decade following the dot com bursting. Within 5 years I was on the board of real businesses with meaningful revenue, strong balance sheets, no debt and on the path to a few interesting exits. Hey, we got to raise again next year.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Founded in 2013 by William Santana Li, a Ford executive, and Stacy Stephens, a former Texas police officer (the co-founders of police vehicle firm Carbon Motors), the Mountain View-based firm has risen to national prominence with its high-profile surveillance robots. You feel they raised the company’s profile and got more people on board?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

Founded in 2013 (or 2014 depending on the source), the Chicago-based company has raised over $82 million in funding over its lifetime from investors such as FinTech Collective and Oak HC/FT , according to Crunchbase. billion in an all-stock deal that was a reflection of its continued push into consumer finance. in 4 years.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

Jason Furtado and Stephan Richter founded Boston-based Shoobx in 2013, according to Crunchbase. The company also said that president Tim Mayopoulos will step down from his role in the first quarter and remain as a board member. 40Seas secures $11M in equity, $100M in credit to grow cross-border trade financing platform .

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

Thornton, former president of Goldman Sachs, executive chairman of Barrick Gold, and board member of Ford, has joined Divergent’s board. raised $13 million in new financing to expand its EV charging products to multi-family buildings across North America. SWTCH Energy Inc.

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