TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

Since launching in 2013, it has picked up more than 50 million customers and more than 1.5 Bolt is piloting a “Women Only” ride-hailing service in South Africa, with female drivers and passengers to improve job opportunities and general safety, one of the programs that the IFC funding will support, it said.

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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

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). Fintech opportunity in Nigeria is the largest on the continent.

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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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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Coyote Ventures : Jessica Karr launched Coyote Ventures in 2021 to address the $1T opportunity in women’s health and wellness that has been historically marginalized. Fika Ventures , co-founded by Eva Ho and TX Zhuo, raised a $160 million fund 3 and a $35 million opportunity fund.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

Of course, one could rebut that by saying traditional VC is all about investing in outliers: Seth Levine analyzed data from Correlation Ventures (21,000 financings from 2004-2013) and writes that “a full 65% of financings fail to return 1x capital. 100x investment opportunities only come along in VC occasionally.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

BCM was founded by Seyi Taylor and Bankole Oluwafemi in 2013. MaC Venture Capital led the round while VC firms Luminate, Unicorn Group, Future Africa, and several angel investors participated. Tomiwa Aladekomo , the company’s CEO, took over from Taylor in 2018. And though the race to get there is a collective one, it’s also a personal one.

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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

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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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities. Sharing economy marketplaces allow owners to “unlock” earning opportunities from these underutilized assets. VIPKid , which was founded in 2013 by Cindy Mi , is a truly amazing story.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Seth Levine analyzed data from Correlation Ventures (21,000 financings from 2004-2013) and writes that “a full 65% of financings fail to return 1x capital. In VC, 100x investment opportunities only come along once every few years. If you bet your VC fund on opportunities like that, you’re relying on luck.

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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. They believed in the team, vision, mission and the opportunity of building streamlined cross-border commerce solutions for African consumers.

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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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Forward Cities

JULY 27, 2020

But that model only partially makes sense, as opportunities for entrepreneurship are often more readily available — with vast amounts of information accessible online to guide aspiring business-starters. Bruce Katz is the founder of the Nowak Metro Finance Lab at Drexel University and a Partner with Accelerator for America.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

Of course, one could rebut that by saying traditional VC is all about investing in outliers: Seth Levine analyzed data from Correlation Ventures (21,000 financings from 2004-2013) and writes that “a full 65% of financings fail to return 1x capital. 100x investment opportunities only come along in VC occasionally.

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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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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

The report added that this was the highest number it had recorded since it began tracking relocation trends in 2013. Europe’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation ( SFDR ) came into force just last year with a mission to enhance transparency in sustainable investments. said in a statement in June.

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Startup Blogpost

AUGUST 30, 2024

After spending 15 years working in the UK and Europe, I returned to India in 2013, where I’ve been dedicated to mentoring the product, operations, and marketing teams at Vantage Circle. The opportunity to present Vantage Fit to Apple gave us invaluable exposure and validated our efforts to create a leading wellness platform.

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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. We have global opportunities from these trends but of course also big challenges. What Has Changed in Financing? even before the pandemic itself has been fully tamed.

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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. They have raised company profiles and made follow-on financings easier. We had a specific goal in mind. See point one!

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OurCrowd

APRIL 25, 2021

OurCrowd is offering investors the opportunity to participate in a new round alongside Pico Venture Partners and Pontifax. PitchBook has awarded the accolade to OurCrowd every year since 2013. Technology is about to transform American industry, presenting investors with a huge opportunity. Learn More. 1,000 High-Tech Jobs.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 6, 2021

Future Family is the first company to bring together financing, technology, and concierge care in an easy-to-use online platform. The finance will be used to add new products to its platform, such as bill payments, insurance, savings, and credit and loan services. Finance Associate, Payment for Klook (Malyasia).

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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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OurCrowd

MAY 20, 2022

PitchBook has ranked OurCrowd as Israel’s most active investor each year since we were founded in 2013, with investments in more than 330 portfolio companies. Classiq adds HSBC, NTT Finance to $36M Series B. Top Tech News. Cyabra answers Elon Musk’s query on Twitter bots. CanNegev launches drone and unmanned tech competition.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

The data is based on a sample of 2,500 companies that have used AngelList to syndicate deals from 2013 through 2020. Mix in the impending SPAC-led debut of eToro, general bullishness in the cryptocurrency space, record highs for some equities markets, and recent rounds from Public.com, M1 Finance and U.K.-based But will it?

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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

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

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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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. 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

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

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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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

I had the opportunity to speak with Angela Barbash recently. That’s the opportunity that you have when you’re working with community impact investors, is that at the end of the day, they want to see you succeed. WJR Business Beat Transcript. Good morning, Paul!

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

For every bear there’s somebody else thinking they have an opportunity. in 2013 and then reverted back to 4x – a little bit below the historical mean. Why Financing in Falling Markets is So Damn Difficult. But not a VC or Bill Gurley or myself would have spooked it 2 years ago. That was written in September 2008.

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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 We can finance the batteries in multiple ways as well as utilize other sources of financing.”

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