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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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

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

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

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

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

APRIL 20, 2022

From a diversity standpoint, the venture capital financing landscape remains incredibly imbalanced. Participants will also get introductions to Amazon leaders and teams, networking opportunities with potential investors and ongoing advisory support, plus access to a virtual community of AWS experts.

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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 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

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

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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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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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

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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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

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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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 16, 2020

Today , the acute asthma attack of a primary school-aged girl in February 2013 was ruled by a U.K. and Europe, in industries such as insurance, finance, tech and more. court to be due to air pollution. It is thought to be the first ruling of its kind in the world. Image Credits: OpenSensors.

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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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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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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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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 Civitas Learning acquired Hoot.me

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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

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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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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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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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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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

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. Dally and Bhargava started Groundfloor to help average investors access opportunities similar in their risk-return profile to those available to institutions, according to Dally.

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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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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

It still lists Oda among its portfolio companies on its site (as part of Vision Fund 2), although it’s not noted as an investor in Oda’s newest financing. ” Investors still see an opportunity, though, not least with players who have been around for longer than the latest grocery boom (and now bust). “We

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Smart Hustle Magazine

APRIL 21, 2021

As Ruggeds mature and realize how much opportunity has passed them by, a sense of urgency drives them to change their course. They will take more accounting, marketing, or finance courses or read up on industry specifics. In 2013, recognizing a need for disruptive distribution and retail changes in the 100-billion-dollar U.S.

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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. And finally, he believes that the fact that Brazil’s financial services industry is so concentrated has spelled opportunity for fintechs in general in the country.

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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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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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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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