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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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

I first met Andrew Stalbow , the founder & CEO of Seriously in August of 2013. On August 23rd, 2013 I had an email intro from my good friend and trusted source Jeff Berman who only sends me stuff when it is somebody he respects (ie a strong filter vs. those who send casual intros). He hit me from two very trusted sources.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Biggs, who has been in the Bitcoin space since 2013, told TechCrunch: “I have never seen this much attention to Bitcoin and other crypto-assets… The time for decentralized technologies has arrived, and their potential is increasingly realized by institutional investors.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) led Fundbox’s Series D financing, which brings the company’s total equity raised to $410 million since its 2013 inception. Since the company launched its first product in 2013, it has “connected with” over 325,000 small businesses and transacted over $2.5

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The company is 100% bootstrapped and Nathan has revealed every bit of his companies finances publicly since it was founded in 2013. ConvertKit now powers the audience for over 20,000 creators including Tim Ferriss and Gretchin Rubin. Nathan is refreshingly open about his journey and there’s so much you can learn from him.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

For instance, South Korea’s Ministry of Economy and Finance, in collaboration with related agencies, introduced the K-ESG guidelines in 2021. Since its establishment in 2013, the Pangyo CS Alliance, a collective of 13 IT giants based in Pangyo, has been dedicated to addressing community-centric challenges.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JUNE 18, 2019

When USV invested in Coinbase in early 2013, our rationale was that digital currencies and digital assets (like Bitcoin and beyond) were a breakthrough technology, similar to TCP/IP, HTTP and SMTP. We believe Libra has the potential to be the catalyst that brings the entire cryptocurrency and cryptoasset market into the mainstream.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

Jason Furtado and Stephan Richter founded Boston-based Shoobx in 2013, according to Crunchbase. Shoobx is a provider of automated equity management operations and financing software to private companies “at all growth stages,” up to and including an initial public offering. All 40 of Shoobx’s employees will join Fidelity.

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2021

Investors involved in the merger have committed $415 million in PIPE financing. Created in 2013, the company originally wanted to create a mainstream bitcoin payment platform. From the day we founded the company three years ago we’ve focused on trying to build a new consumer finance company.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 10, 2023

Founded in 2013, the startup introduced an affordable and efficient technology solution for fish and shrimp farmers in the Indonesian aquaculture industry. eFishery’s comprehensive ecosystem encompasses the entire aquaculture value chain, from seeds to financing.

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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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Founded in 2013 by Alloysius Attah and Emmanuel Owusu Addai , Farmerline works through agro-dealers, who are usually the first point of knowledge for farmers, in ensuring access to high-quality supplies, including fertilizer and seeds. It also uses that data to determine the amount of business expansion credit to give to agro-dealers.

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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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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. Founded in 2013 by IIT alumni Lokesh Anand, Mayur Rustagi and Rahul Kumar Singh, Sigmoid offers analytics and AI solutions to companies around the globe.

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A Smart Bear

JANUARY 4, 2018

This week we closed $250M in financing from Silver Lake , the premier technology private equity firm. Every day, 5% of the entire online world (roughly 3.5 billion people) visits a customer running on the WP Engine Digital Experience Platform.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Workday helps companies manage finance and human resources tasks, and VNDLY fits nicely into the latter category providing them with software to manage contractors, a service that should come in handy at a time where it’s increasingly difficult to fill full time job openings. billion in 2018.

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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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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 17, 2014

In 2013 there were 967 million FPS transactions. Finance government stimulus Internet Payment Regulation Uncategorized Venture Capital Disruption payments wealthfront' It’s the large banks, and ACH is slow for the same reason Vegas Casinos have long cab lines – they don’t want you to leave. The point to understand is that the U.S.

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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.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The personal finance company went public last year. Then in 2013, he co-founded Innovative Auctions, which has revenues in the “hundreds of millions.” . That experience, in the pair’s view, gives them an edge in a very competitive investment environment. Gibson co-founded NerdWallet, where he also served as COO from 2010 to 2014.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

million pre-seed funding it has raised from the Founders Factory Africa, FrontEnd Ventures, Adaverse, Gullit, Five35, Renew Capital, Changecom, XA Network, Ajim Capital, Artha Ventures, Daba Finance, Google Black Founders Fund, and several angel investors.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

The financing marks the company’s first ever institutional funding. Founded in 2013, the Argentinian startup serves as a white label infrastructure software provider, with the aim of giving businesses the ability to launch financial services. Endeavor Catalyst also participated in the financing.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

Partridge said that Bolt already has vehicle-financing partnerships with banks in markets like Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, and its planning to form additional collaborations, and explore the expansion of the current ones to reach more markets and drivers. However, partnerships are set to bridge the financing gap.

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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. WHEN OUR INDUSTRY CHANGED — THE ERA OF THE UNICORN Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures first coined the term Unicorn in 2013, ironically to signal that very few companies ever achieved a $1 billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

New York City-based Fundera was co-founded in 2013 by Jared Hecht, who previously co-founded GroupMe. The goal is to help NerdWallet expand into the small- and medium-business market with both content and actual financing. Financial guidance company NerdWallet announced at the end of last week that it has acquired Fundera.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

From a diversity standpoint, the venture capital financing landscape remains incredibly imbalanced. saw almost no progress in venture capital funding from 2013 to 2020. But critics contend that AWS Impact Accelerator doesn’t go far enough in supporting historically marginalized entrepreneurs.

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Haystack

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

And this week, the company announced it had raised a super-sized $20M Series A financing co-led by Kent Bennett from Bessemer Venture Partners and also Goldman Sachs. When I began investing in 2013, the Series A rounds were quite fast and furious after the seed rounds. The round was completed last fall, but announced this week.).

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 6, 2022

On the other hand, France-based Everimpact (www.everimpact.com), which is led by Mathieu Carlier, is on a mission to help fight the climate crisis by measuring carbon emissions to finance climate actions. Established in 2013, Transport Capital is an investment management and financial advisory company focused on maritime and aviation.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2023

Do you have control over your finances, both personal and business?” “How Fellow first drew notice in 2013 with a Kickstarter campaign to fund production of its Duo coffee maker. Chip on the shoulder? How do you communicate your message to investors, coworkers, potential partners, etc.?”

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

Tiger Global Management, Battery Ventures, Zeev Ventures, 01 Advisors as well as existing backers Norwest Venture Partners and Citi Ventures also participated in the financing, which brings the New York-based company’s valuation to over $1 billion. With the latest round, HoneyBook has now raised $215 million since its 2013 inception.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

Since launching in 2013, it has picked up more than 50 million customers and more than 1.5 Bolt’s efforts in emerging markets have long been one of the key ways that the company differentiates itself from Uber — perhaps logical, considering that the company itself was founded in an emerging economy. valuation.

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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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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. But angel financing has been evolving thanks to ‘Super Angels’ and crowdfunding.

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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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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

In 2013, Monot co-founded Innovative Auctions, a high-stakes auction company. . He is also the GP of the 500 Fintech fund. Mohnot previously served as vice president of business development at Groupon after a startup he founded, FeeFighters, was acquired by the company in 2012. Early action equals bigger savings.

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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. They’re apparently everywhere. And it is easy to understand why this perception persists. Their rationale was simple.

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 13, 2021

Even though we decided not to pursue this model at InboxDollars, I continued to think about it and eventually decided to start angel investing as a personal hobby in 2013. MY 2013 ANSWER TO “WHY?” A lot of new things. What I didn’t expect is just how much overlap there would be with my core job responsibilities.

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