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

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. The investment giant, which unveiled $2.85 billion funds earlier this year for India and Southeast Asia , has invested $19.3

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

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

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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

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. This spells ample opportunity for payments infrastructure providers such as Geopagos.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

Last year alone it invested $22 billion in companies, it said. For example, it has also invested money into CurrencyCloud , Remitly , CompareAsiaGroup and Kreditech , among others. “We Since launching in 2013, it has picked up more than 50 million customers and more than 1.5

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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

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

APRIL 20, 2022

From a diversity standpoint, the venture capital financing landscape remains incredibly imbalanced. of total venture capital invested, according to Crunchbase. saw almost no progress in venture capital funding from 2013 to 2020. The current system capitalizes women and minority founders at 80% less than businesses overall.

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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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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. At Versatile VC, we particularly like investing in “dual-PhD” problems, at the intersection of multiple domains. Participants have the opportunity to receive prizes reaching $40,000.

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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. Groundfloor’s platform offers investments in real estate debt to its 150,000+ users, with a minimum investment of $10. in convertible notes.

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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. The investment in Higo marks Homebrew’s third in the region in the past 18 months.

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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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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

I started out as a lawyer, corporate finance lawyer, for about two and a half years. Then I went into banking, specifically investment banking in the early ’90s. What areas in both technology investing as well as distribution or sales do we really need a bolster to really take the company to the next level?

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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. There’s signs VC investments in AI startups are cooling. quarter over quarter in Q2 2022, with overall investments reaching $20.2 billion valuation, down from the $4.6

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 17, 2014

In 2013 there were 967 million FPS transactions. we immediately thought of Wealthfront , the automated investment service started by Benchmark founder Andy Rachleff. It was simply too complicated to remain fully invested and properly allocated all the time. Interbank transfers all over China are also same day.

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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. “In

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2021

By 2013 it would be bankrupt and one of the many casualties of the first wave of cleantech investing. In 2013, there were 220,000 electric vehicles on roads, according to data from Statista , a number which had grown to 4.8 “You don’t have to invest an insane amount of money to put them in. million by 2019.

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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

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

JULY 1, 2021

The funding comes just months after São Paulo-based Mercado Bitcoin’s Series A round (of an undisclosed amount) in January of 2021, which was co-led by G2D/GP Investments and Parallax Ventures, with participation from HS Investimentos , Gear Ventures, Évora and Genial. billion, ranking it among the top 10 unicorns in Latin America. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Online grocery delivery, a booming business at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, has definitely come down to earth with the shifts in the economy, public health and technology investing. The investment gives Oda a post-money valuation of NOK3.5 billion due to write-downs on the valuations of a number of its technology investments.

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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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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

In addition to sharing direct advice for fintech founders, the investors talked about managing fraud and default risk, BNPL’s growing popularity as a point-of-sale option, and what kinds of investment opportunities they’re looking for. The age of the centaur: $100M ARR is the new cloud valuation milestone.

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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

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Surely not I, when my family moved here in 2013. Other weekly news Marqeta shared with me exclusively that it has agreed to acquire two-year-old fintech infrastructure startup Power Finance for $223 million in cash, marking the first acquisition in the publicly traded company’s 13-year history. 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. We also want to identify more embedded insurance opportunities and expand the product functionality.”. auto market is huge: even a slow transition to online means a massive opportunity for Insurify.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

The London-based company, its CEO and co-founder Dev Subrata told me, started out as a customer engagement platform in 2013. “We Developers use the company’s tools to power a range of features, including digital receipts, omnichannel attribution, loyalty and rewards, expense management and personal finance management. .

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Smart Hustle Magazine

APRIL 21, 2021

Ruggeds make the leap toward success in a way that separates them from the millions who fall short because they have invested the time and effort to develop and hone a specific set of powerful skills. As Ruggeds mature and realize how much opportunity has passed them by, a sense of urgency drives them to change their course.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

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. She joined Mesa Global where she is doing both venture capital and investment banking. We had a specific goal in mind. Jamie did, too!

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

On Friday, January 13, investment giant BlackRock announced it was acquiring a minority stake in SMB 401(k) provider startup Human Interest. For one, as one source told me, BlackRock’s investment is a show of faith in the SMB 401(k) market — one where the firm hasn’t historically played. Consolidation everywhere. ” In other news.

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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 investing and no one knew me, I would just invest in folks I knew well. As a result, I personally cannot keep up with all the deal flow. This a common refrain among many seed investors in private.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

We can’t check out every investing outfit’s demo day. 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. ” Valar Labs.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

” I hear it when I visit LPs (the people who invest in VCs) all across the country, “Yeah, I haven’t been out there for a few years but I keep hearing that something is going on there.” No less than Fred Wilson has credited Carlota’s work with having a major influence on his investment strategy at USV.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 19, 2017

But as the chart above shows, the median amount invested in seed rounds continues to increase at about 40% annually. 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. In 2016, the number of seeds has fallen by a 27.6%

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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.” ” Data, indeed, is what a lot of these acquisitions are about.

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