Gust

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

universities, Silicon Valley startups, and global businesses; country-specific navigation and content; and access to financing from Gust’s vast early-stage investor network. In 2013, the global youth unemployment rate was estimated at 12.6%, or 73 million people. This critical resource could not come at a more pressing time.

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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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Gust

MARCH 11, 2014

According to analysis by my partner Jamie Davidson on typical periods between financings peaks around 9 months so the follow on rates for Series Bs should be accurate up until the 2011 class, which gives these startups more than 2 years to raise their B. Originally posted by Tomasz Tunguz on his blog, www.tomtunguz.com.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase. 5/ The Enduring Allure Of Platform Potential: Revenue is important.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Equity-based crowdfunding (that is, providing regular people with the opportunity to purchase stock in private companies) will not be legal in the US until the first quarter of 2013 at the earliest. It is also incredibly difficult to be successful, and will likely be very challenging to finance.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Was Paul Graham right in his “high resolution” financing post? So Investor A might have bought 20% of your company in 2012 and in 2013 with no addition money invested suddenly owns 40% of your company. Some thoughts on raising angel money. So let me weigh in more loudly than in the past. what technically happens?

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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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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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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

billion 2013 figure) have been massive financings at Honest Company ($70mm), JustFab ($85mm), ZipRecruiter ($63mm) and lord only knows how much SnapChat has actually accumulated. Over the past 4 years LA’s tech fundings have growing at a 30% compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) which is > 4 times the US average VC CAGR (7%).

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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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Gust

JULY 19, 2012

By definition, none of these are operational yet because they won’t be legal until the beginning of 2013, but there sure are a lot of folks throwing their hats into the ring here. I believe this is likely to continue, and that at least the two leaders will be very successful.

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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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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

And somebody who isn’t thinking necessarily thinking about how to maximize their ownership in your next round of financing. We also sat down and talked about what the big challenges for 2013-2016 would be for the company and we are in the fortunate position of our major issue being how to handle growth. Experience. Relationships.

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 15, 2021

When I built my first pitch deck in 2013, I had no clue what to include. It’s a structure used in most modern films, and you can learn a lot from it that you can adapt for your pitch deck. Follow a known structure. I created random slides and the design wasn’t ideal. What helped me get better was studying pitch decks of other companies.

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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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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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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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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

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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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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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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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

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

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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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

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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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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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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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

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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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

DECEMBER 30, 2021

The only non-fintech deals were Andela and TradeDepot (although the latter has an embedded finance play). A report by Briter Bridges from the middle of this year looked at 1,100+ companies to have received VC money between 2013 and May 2021 (pegged at $20 million or less). A handful of local acquisitions and a monumental exit.

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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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