TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

MycoWorks , a company making a fungal-based biomaterial that can replace leather, brought in a fresh round of funding — $125 million in Series C financing — to fund a production plant for scaling the manufacture of its flagship product Reishi. To date, the company raised $187 million in total.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

Geopagos , a payments infrastructure startup based in Buenos Aires, has raised $35 million in a round led by Riverwood Capital. The financing marks the company’s first ever institutional funding. This spells ample opportunity for payments infrastructure providers such as Geopagos.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

and Europe comb through their data and derive better insights from it, has raised $12 million in a new financing round following a strong year of growth, it said Thursday. Sequoia Capital India led the San Francisco-headquartered startup’s Series B funding, which included some secondary shares purchase, the two said.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

It has also reserved $75 million for an opportunity fund for follow-on investments. The personal finance company went public last year. Then in 2013, he co-founded Innovative Auctions, which has revenues in the “hundreds of millions.” . Gibson co-founded NerdWallet, where he also served as COO from 2010 to 2014.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Abraaj bought Vine Pharmacy in 2013 when it was the largest pharmacy chain in Uganda. But with Abraaj as its largest shareholder, the business had to resize once there wasn’t any more capital available for growth. s development finance institution, last year. Vine used to be the biggest pharmacy chain in Uganda.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

HoneyBook, which has built out a client experience and financial management platform for service-based small businesses and freelancers, announced today that it has raised $155 million in a Series D round led by Durable Capital Partners LP. With the latest round, HoneyBook has now raised $215 million since its 2013 inception.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

The B2B payments space has been on fire for a while, and the COVID-19 pandemic has only fueled mass adoption of digitizing finances. The financing is the latest in a string of fintech-related fundings in Mexico that TechCrunch has covered as of late. Higo launched its SaaS platform last November. And now the startup has raised $3.3

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Founded in 2013 by Markus Villig, the tech firm, which has operations in 45 countries – including seven in Africa – runs a gamut of services comprising ride-hailing, car, scooter and bike rentals, food delivery, and recently grocery delivery, fashioning itself as a transport and deliveries company.

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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. Some of the greatest areas of innovation opportunity are at the intersection of sectors historically segregated , e.g., computational biology. Many universities (e.g., 5) Student-focused VCs.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Jonathan Whittle, co-founder and partner, Quona Capital. Jason Brown, partner, Victory Park Capital. According to Melissa Guzy, co-founder and managing partner at Arbor Ventures, “a new entrant will need a significant amount of capital from the start for marketing and winning a position on the checkout page.”

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Onevest

APRIL 30, 2015

In a report on startup investing and “How the Rich Invest” Forbes notes that the Angel Capital Association counted more than 330 active angel groups in North America as of 2013. Just 2% of startup financing actually comes from venture capital firms. In Summary… Online platforms are trending.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

Community banks and credit unions make up a big percentage of all banking institutions, which means Mantl’s market opportunity is pretty darn large. The financing brings Mantl’s total funding raised since inception to $60.7 Founded in 2016, New York-based Mantl has been described by some as “the Shopify of account opening.” .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Dataiku is the latest well-financed startup to suffer from macroeconomic headwinds, raising new capital at a significantly reduced valuation. ” Dataiku, which launched in Paris in 2013, competes with a number of companies for dominance in the AI and big data analytics space. billion valuation, down from the $4.6

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 17, 2014

In 2013 there were 967 million FPS transactions. With the benefit of our newfound perspective, Benchmark asked Andy and CEO Adam Nash if there might still be an opportunity to invest. Finance government stimulus Internet Payment Regulation Uncategorized Venture Capital Disruption payments wealthfront'

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Surely not I, when my family moved here in 2013. The company had raised $43 million in funding from investors such as Foundation Capital, QED Investors and Maverick Ventures, according to Silicon Hills. Other backers include Greyhound Capital, SoftBank Vision Fund and Point72 Ventures. And not just once but twice in two years.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

With the new financing, Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Insurify has now raised a total of $128 million since its 2013 inception. For example, Jerry, which has raised capital twice this year , is focused mostly on auto insurance, although it does have a home product. It also, naturally, wants to add to its 125-person team. “We

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Small business owners often need help writing effective job ads, he says, as well as the the flexibility to post opportunities in more places. ” WizeHire’s latest financing round — which brings its total raised to $37.5 the amount of capital invested in 2020, according to PitchBook.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2021

Agassi’s company would go on to raise nearly $1 billion (back when that was considered a large sum of money) from some of the world’s top venture capital and growth equity firms. By 2013 it would be bankrupt and one of the many casualties of the first wave of cleantech investing. million by 2019. Image Credit: Ample.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

First off, 3-year-old one-click checkout startup Fast announced it was shutting down after struggling to raise more capital to keep operations running. The London-based company, its CEO and co-founder Dev Subrata told me, started out as a customer engagement platform in 2013. “We Bain Capital just led its $65 million Series B.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. It was 2009 and it was terribly difficult to get any financing (if you can remember a time like that!) Throughout 2012 & 2013 we funded many companies and then pulled together a second fund. And Jamie hers.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 1, 2022

As CEO of i2E , I have had the wonderful opportunity since January 2013 to write this weekly column for the readers of this newspaper. I served for eight years as Secretary of Finance and Revenue under my good friend and highly respected Governor Brad Henry while also serving as State Treasurer the last six years of my state service.

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Jason Malki

JUNE 2, 2022

He began investing and tinkering with Bitcoin in 2013, and his trading card collection dates back to 1993 when he first became involved in competitive Magic: The Gathering. The blockchain offers unprecedented access, transparency, and security, and at the intersection of these worlds I saw an opportunity. Well, it’s not.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

SoftBank — one of the most prolific investors in the last several years fueled by its mega-capitalized Vision Funds — has been hit hard by the crunch in the tech world. “In the previous funding round, capital was more accessible and hyperscaling was backed and encouraged by investors.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

Founded by brothers Gustavo and Mauricio Chamati in 2013, Mercado Bitcoin was the first crypto exchange in Brazil. Besides hiring, he said that Mercado Bitcoin/2TM will also use the new capital toward expanding its service offerings and investing in infrastructure “to meet the soaring demand for crypto in the region.”

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. Both are massively funding other LA tech companies through what Fred Wilson once defined as “recycled capital.”

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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. And the company is going to need financing as we continue to grow.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

million Series A financing led by i2E Management Company Inc., PhotoniCare has developed a patented imaging platform that provides growth opportunities beyond otology (study of the ear). . – September 3, 2020 – PhotoniCare, Inc., with co-investment from OSF Ventures, Sony Innovation Fund, and Dreampact Ventures. About PhotoniCare.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Pear, a seed-stage venture firm founded in 2013, has an impressive track record when it comes to identifying promising companies from their earliest stages — including DoorDash, Gusto, Aurora Solar, Vanta, Branch Metrics and Guardant Health. This is because only 17% of us are required to learn any personal finance in school.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

Jason Furtado and Stephan Richter founded Boston-based Shoobx in 2013, according to Crunchbase. He told me: “The question I have is who will capitalize on this bear market to scoop up valuable technology or talent. To me, it feels like the move to shrink back from the housing market might open up more opportunities for fintechs.

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Haystack

JUNE 2, 2018

If you read yesterday’s post, you can see just how insane the proliferation of seed financings have been. When I started back in 2013, I would try to respond to all the cold and “lukewarm” intros and investor referrals I received as a matter of courtesy. As a result, I personally cannot keep up with all the deal flow.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 19, 2017

This data shows that they are broadly accepted as a common way to finance an early stage startup. Since 2013, median second seed size has increased by 18% annually. However, the increases in second-seeded rounds suggest investors are competing more for these opportunities. There is no stigma with these rounds.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Yet while it still offers those services, a couple of years after its 2013 launch, the company pivoted to building what it now calls a “vertical software platform for the home.” “In total, we had a $323 million fundraise that allows us now to not only be a public company with public currency, but to be very well capitalized.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 2, 2016

Cloud computing, which encompasses the infrastructure products used by developers to build services, has remained flat at 4% over the past five years despite some recent declines in 2013 and 2014. Health and wellness companies continue to receive increasing amounts of early-stage capital through 2014 before suffering a mild decline in 2015.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Since its 2013 inception, Nu has raised $2.3 billion in capital, with investors such as Sequoia Capital, Tencent, Ribbit Capital, Kaszek, QED Investors and others, At that time, Nu had 40 million users across Brazil, Mexico and Colombia. TechCrunch dug deep into Nu in this series earlier this year. We’ll know soon enough.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

To help the finance sector meet those demands, an Amsterdam-based startup called Fourthline has built a set of AI-based solutions to help with identity verification, help businesses comply with anti-money laundering rules and more. Today, it said it has raised €50 million ($54 million) in funding to expand that technology.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Founded in 2013 and based in São Paulo, Brazil, Nubank serves more than 34 million customers, making it Latin America’s largest neobank. How to identify unicorn founders when they’re still early-stage. How contrarian hires and a pitch deck started Nubank’s $30 billion fintech empire. Image Credits: Nigel Sussman.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Two years ago, the African tech ecosystem saw newfound attention from global players that translated to the continent’s best year of receiving venture capital. Venture capital investment in Africa predicted to reach a record high this year. From varying sources, it is estimated up to $2 billion went into African tech startups in 2019.

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